{"id":3654,"date":"2026-01-21T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:08","slug":"ces-hommes-qui-ont-fonde-larmee-malienne-lieutenant-colonel-keletigui-drabo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/ces-hommes-qui-ont-fonde-larmee-malienne-lieutenant-colonel-keletigui-drabo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ces hommes qui ont fond\u00e9 l\u2019Arm\u00e9e malienne : Lieutenant-colonel K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lieutenant-colonel K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo figure, avec Colonel S\u00e9kou Traor\u00e9 et Mohamed Ould Issa, parmi les premiers officiers qui ont pos\u00e9 les jalons de l\u2019Arm\u00e9e malienne au lendemain de l\u2019Ind\u00e9pendance. Ancien combattant de l\u2019Arm\u00e9e fran\u00e7aise, il \u00e9tait sur le terrain lors de la Seconde, Guerre mondiale, avant d\u2019\u00eatre envoy\u00e9 en Indochine. K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo a \u00e9t\u00e9 longtemps Grand Chancelier des Ordres Nationaux du Mali.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">N\u00e9 le 1er novembre 1907, K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo entre en 1923 \u00e0 l\u2019Ecole des Enfants de Troupes de Kati. Par la suite, il int\u00e8gre l\u2019Ecole de Saint-Louis du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal o\u00f9 il termine en 1928.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entre 1930 et 1935, il participe \u00e0 plusieurs op\u00e9rations en Afrique du Nord avant d\u2019int\u00e9grer l\u2019Ecole d\u2019application de Fr\u00e9jus. Il sort Major de sa promotion. Apr\u00e8s avoir combattu lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est envoy\u00e9 en Indochine. C\u2019est dans ce pays asiatique que le jeune militaire rencontre sa future \u00e9pouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo est promu Capitaine en 1950. \u00c0 l\u2019Ind\u00e9pendance du Soudan fran\u00e7ais, il n\u2019h\u00e9site pas \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 l\u2019appel de la patrie \u00e0 l\u2019image d\u2019autres militaires comme S\u00e9kou Traor\u00e9, Mohamed Ould Issa, Balla Kon\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ainsi K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo prend, en 1960, le Commandement du Bataillon Autonome de Kayes. Cela, pendant trois ans. Il termine sa carri\u00e8re \u00e0 l\u2019Etat-Major des Forces arm\u00e9es. En 1970, il est nomm\u00e9 Grand Chancelier des Ordres Nationaux du Mali. Il reste \u00e0 ce poste jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son d\u00e9c\u00e8s en 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant-colonel K\u00e9l\u00e9tigui Drabo figure, avec Colonel S\u00e9kou Traor\u00e9 et Mohamed Ould Issa, parmi les premiers officiers qui ont pos\u00e9 les jalons de l\u2019Arm\u00e9e malienne au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-societe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maliafrique.ml\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}