Mountaga Tall (born December 10, 1956) is a Malian politician who is President of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID) and served in the government of Mali as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2014 to 2016 and Minister of the Digital Economy and Communication from 2016 to 2017. Previously he was First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2002 to 2007.

Political career

Tall was born in Ségou. A lawyer by profession, He served as a Deputy in the National Assembly from 1992 to 1997. Tall and CNID participated in a boycott of the July 1997 parliamentary election. He was one of many opposition leaders who were arrested on August 9, 1997, in connection with the killing of a police officer at a rally on August 8; they were charged on August 14.

At a CNID party congress held in Bamako in early March 2002, Tall was nominated without opposition as the party's candidate for the April 2002 presidential election. He won 3.86% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election and took fifth place. and he was elected. Following this election, he became the First Vice-President of the National Assembly, remaining in that post through the five-year parliamentary term (2002–2007).

When the Pan-African Parliament began meeting in March 2004, Tall became one of Mali's five members.

Tall was again elected to a seat in the National Assembly in the July 2007 parliamentary election, running at the head of an ADEMA-CNID-URD list in Ségou. Although the list did not win a majority in its district in the first round, in the second round it won 63.89%.

In addition to serving in the National Assembly, Tall was also a member of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States.

In the November–December 2013 parliamentary election, Tall sought re-election to the National Assembly as a candidate in Ségou but was defeated in the second round of voting.

Under President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Tall was appointed to the government as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on 11 April 2014. He was moved to the post of Minister of the Digital Economy and Communication, as well as Government Spokesman, on 7 July 2016. He was dismissed from the government on 11 April 2017.

On the night of 2 May 2026, Tall was abducted by armed men who stormed his home in Bamako. According to a relative who spoke with the Associated Press, the kidnappers were from the Malian Armed Forces.

References

  • This article is based on a translation of the corresponding article from the French Wikipedia, accessed 24 April 2005.