Abass Dembélé is a colonel-major in the Malian Armed Forces and has been governor of Mopti Region since 2020.

During the 2012 Tuareg rebellion, Didier Dacko put Dembélé at the head of a group of volunteer commandos and a company of Malian special forces.

[2] These forces played a key role in Malian victory at the Battle of Konna, where Dembélé was injured but remained at the front.

[3][4] Dembélé was responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of Amadou Sanogo, who led the 2012 Malian coup d'état, on November 27, 2013.

[10] In January 2020, Dembélé joined the team of the High Representative of the Head of State of Mali, supervised by Dioncounda Traoré.