Abass Dembélé
Governor of Mopti Region
In office
December 2020 – August 2025
Preceded bySidi Alassane Touré
Personal details
Awards
National Order of Mali (2014)
Military service
RankColonel-Major
Battles/warsMali War

Abass Dembélé is a colonel-major in the Malian Armed Forces and was the governor of Mopti Region from 2020 until 2025.

Biography

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Dembélé is the son of colonel Koké Dembélé, the former chancellor of the National Order of Mali.[1] He was trained in France and the United States, studying counter-terrorism. In 2012, he held the rank of commander and led the 61st Infantry Regiment from Sévaré. 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.[1][5] Dembélé received the National Order of Mali in February 2014.[6] In late 2015, he graduated from the Ecole de Guerre in France.[7] In 2016, he was promoted to the Koulikoro Military School of Administration, and then appointed commander of Tombouctou Region in 2017.[8][9] He served in Timbuktu until 2019.[10]

In January 2020, Dembélé joined the team of the High Representative of the Head of State of Mali, supervised by Dioncounda Traoré.[11] In December 2020, he was appointed governor of Mopti Region.[12][13] He was forced to flee the region after massive protests broke out against his administration in June 2022.[14] Dembélé was present at the ceremony marking the end of MINUSMA in Mopti Region.[15]

During August 2025, he was arrested after being accused of planning a coup d'etat against the Malian government.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Page d'accueil". Afribone. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  2. ^ "Les forces spéciales maliennes, laboratoire d'une armée en rénovation". L'Express (in French). 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  3. ^ "Guerre contre le terrorisme: Les dessous de la bataille de Konna". malijet.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  4. ^ "Armée malienne : Les "durs" de la force speciale". abamako.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  5. ^ "Le général Amadou Sanogo, auteur du putsch de 2012, arrêté à Bamako". France 24 (in French). 2013-11-27. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  6. ^ "convert". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  7. ^ "Order of November 27, 2015 granting the higher military studies certificate". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  8. ^ "TOMBOUCTOU : le colonel Abbas Dembelé, nouveau commandant de la zone de défense". Studio Tamani (in French). 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  9. ^ "Armée malienne, l'homme à la place qu'il faut : Enfin IBK se réveille !". aBamako.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  10. ^ "Le Colonel Boubacar Niansary Sanogo prend le commandement de la 5ème zone de défense (Tombouctou)". malijet.com. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  11. ^ "Pour le retour de la paix au centre : Le Haut représentant du chef de l'Etat Dioncounda Traore à pied d'œuvre". Mali Web (in French). 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  12. ^ Makadji, Mamadou (January 26, 2021). "Mali : Reprise des cours à Mopti : Des écoles sillonnées par le gouverneur". Maliactu. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
  13. ^ "Bourse de l'emploi et de la formation professionnelle à Bandiagara : Les raisons du choix judicieux de la tenue de cette 3e édition dans une région en souffrance…". Bamada. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  14. ^ "Remous sociaux a Mopti: des jeunes ayant reclame le depart du gouverneur, Colonel Major Abass Dembele contraints du fuir". Maliactu. June 20, 2022. Archived from the original on February 23, 2024. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  15. ^ "Rétrocession du Camp de la MINUSMA à Mopti : Un pas Majeur vers la Souveraineté des Forces Armées Maliennes". MALI24 (in French). 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  16. ^ Sampson, Eve (15 August 2025). "Mali's Junta Accuses Frenchman of Plot to Overthrow the Military Government". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  17. ^ Ewokor, Chris; Rukanga, Basillioh. "Dozens of Malian soldiers arrested over alleged coup plot against junta, sources say". BBC. Retrieved 16 August 2025.

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