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The circumstances under which Cheick Modibo Diarra quit as Mali’s prime minister on Tuesday are under a cloud, but there is not an iota of a doubt about his academic and professional brilliance.

Diarra is an accomplished astrophysicist who worked on five NASA missions and became a US citizen, but never forgot the country of his birth.

Diarra earned degrees from universities in France and the US, where he later taught mechanical and aerospace engineering before returning to Mali to found a political party ahead of an aborted presidential run.

He had planned on running in Mali’s April 29 election, but that vote was scrapped following a coup by junior army officers on March 21.

The coup leaders later named him prime minister to head a transitional civilian government.

Before joining Malian politics, Diarra was appointed the Africa and Middle East chairman for computer software giant Microsoft in 2006.

Diarra was also appointed a goodwill amba