Release Sought for Kidnapped Mali Opposition Leader

Four many years in the past, Mali opposition chief Soumaïla Cissé was posing with previous U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the Democratic Get together convention, portion of an African delegation representing the continent’s most well known democracy advocates.

Now the 70-12 months-outdated previous finance minister, IBM government and Worldwide Financial Fund board member is currently being held hostage by a jihadist group on the edge of the Sahara. A person of Mali’s most well known general public figures and a a few-time presidential prospect, Mr. Cissé was snatched…