Tiébilé Dramé

Tiébilé Dramé was a Malian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1992 and again from 2019 until the 2020 Malian coup d'état. Born in Nioro du Sahel, he became a student activist in Bamako against the regime of dictator Moussa Traoré and was elected secretary general of the National Union of Students and Pupils of Mali in 1978. He was arrested and imprisoned several times between 1977 and 1980, and went into exile in Europe in 1981. He earned a degree in African history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and worked for Amnesty International in London as a researcher investigating human rights abuses in West Africa.