Amadou Toumani Touré, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Amadou Toumani Touré

Malian soldier and politician

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1948

Place of Birth: Mopti, Mopti Region, Mali

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Mali

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Amadou Toumani Touré (born 4 November 1948; also known as "ATT") is a Malian politician who was President of Mali from 2002 to 2012. Touré was head of President Moussa Traoré's personal guard (and parachute regiment) when a popular revolution overthrew the regime in March 1991 and Colonel Touré arrested the President and led the revolution.
He presided over a year-long military-civilian transition process that produced a new Constitution and multiparty elections; Touré handed power to Mali's first democratically elected president, Alpha Oumar Konaré, on 6 June 1992.
Konaré promoted Touré to the rank of General. Ten years later, after retiring from the army, he entered politics as a civilian and won the 2002 presidential election with a broad coalition of support.
He was easily re-elected in 2007 to a second and final term.
On 22 March 2012, shortly before his scheduled departure from office, disgruntled soldiers initiated a coup d'état that forced him into hiding.
As part of the agreement to restore constitutional order to Mali, Touré resigned from the presidency on 8 April, and eleven days later he went into exile. Touré is member of the Earth Charter International Commission.