Mali: On Being Knighted by Mali - Despite Coup and Pandemic Delays

[CFA] Washington, DC -- When Ambassador Mahamadou Nimaga told me a few months back that Vivian Lowery Derryck, Chic Dambach and I were going to be Knighted by the Mali government, of course I was surprised as well as deeply honored!  Not more than a week later the government of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was overthrown!