Ismaël_Wagué
Ismaël Wagué
Malian military officer and politician
Ismaël Wagué is a Malian military officer serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Malian Air Force of the Malian Armed Forces.[1]
After the 2020 Malian coup d'état, he became spokesperson for the National Committee for the Salvation of the People.[2][3] Wagué gave an interview on France 24, wherein he claimed that the actions of the Malian military was not a coup.[4] He has also pledged that the National Committee for the Salvation of the People will seek a leader to transition Mali from military to civilian rule.[5][6][7]
Colonel-Major Ismaël Wagué was appointed to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force in 2019 by president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta after a series of dismissals in response to a terrorist attack that killed 26 soldiers in Northern Mali.[8]