Abdoulaye Maïga (officer)

Lieutenant Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga (born 12 May 1981) is a Malian military officer currently serving as the government spokesman.

[3] Maïga has worked in the Early Warning Directorate on the Prevention of Terrorism in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

[3] He worked as a police officer for MONUSCO (part of the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

[3] Maïga was not part of the group of officers led by Colonel Assimi Goïta who took power in the August 2020 Malian coup d'état.

[5][3] He is considered close to Goïta, and became "the voice of the policy of breaking with France and its allies" after the second coup d'état in May 2021.