Born in 1986 in the city of Gao, in the North of Mali, to an agricultural engineer father and a housewife mother; Abderhamane Cherif Coulibaly holds a Master's degree in International Law and a Master's degree in Marketing. He is the promoter of the company M.G.F (MALIAN General Food) which is a multi-sector farm; he is also the commercial manager of HOUNAYNE