Africa under AFRICOM domination: New prime minister of Mali is Microsoft executive
Microsoft executive named Mali prime minister. - Armed men on Tuesday arrested ex-prime minister Modibo Sidibe and Soumaila Cisse, a former minister who led the West African Economic and Monetary Union until November last year. Cisse suffered an unspecified injury while fleeing his home, and was later arrested at a hospital and taken by ambulance to the junta's headquarters in Kati, near Bamako, his office said. Cisse's home was "vandalised" and a nephew and a caretaker were also injured, the office said. Both Sidibe and Cisse were leading candidates in a presidential election set for 29 April that was derailed by the 22 March coup. [...] The new premier, Cheick Modibo Diarra, is a noted astrophysicist who served as Microsoft's chairman for Africa and taught mechanical and aerospace engineering at Howard University in Washington DC. Also a US citizen, he had planned to run in the aborted election this month as the candidate of the Rally for Mali's Development that he founded last year.