Alpha Yaya Sangaré
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Colonel Alpha Yaya Sangaré is a Malian military officer and whisteblower who was detained in 2024 after publishing a book documenting human rights abuses by the Malian Armed Forces.
Sangaré joined the National Gendarmerie, a military force with law enforcement duties, after graduating from a military school in 1999 in Koulikoro, where he trained alongside Abdoulaye Maïga; his father had also been a police officer.[1][2][3] Following the 2020 coup d'état, which saw the removal of the government of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and the establishment of a military junta, Sangaré became the commander of the newly established Bamako gendarmerie region. He attained the rank of colonel within the Malian Armed Forces.[4][5]
Following the 2020 coup d'état, Sangaré had called for a transition to a civilian-led government.[4]
Sangaré obtained a master's degree from Wilmington University in Delaware in the United States. In August 2022, Sangaré defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Terrorism and the fight against terrorism in Mali: problems, issues and institutional challenges" at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal.[3]