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Constitutional court ratifies President Keita’s election win

Constitutional court ratifies President Keita’s election win

Mali’s constitutional court has confirmed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s win in this month’s runoff election, rejecting fraud accusations by the opposition candidate. Monday’s verdict by the country’s top court clears the way for Keita to begin his second five-year term on September 4 after he was declared the winner of Mali’s presidential election on August […]

Mali President Wins Presidential Runoff Vote in Lanslide

Mali President Wins Presidential Runoff Vote in Lanslide

Incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali has won a landslide victory in the West African nation’s presidential runoff election. Official results announced Thursday reveled Keita won 67 percent of the vote from Sunday’s second round, soundly beating challenger and opposition leader Soumaila Cisse. Turnout in the runoff vote was an abysmally low 34 percent, […]

Mali opposition leader rejects election result as counting underway

Mali opposition leader rejects election result as counting underway

Malian opposition candidate Soumaila Cisse said on Monday he would reject the results of a presidential runoff marred by accusations of fraud, violence and low turnout, calling on the population “to rise up.” Ballot counting was underway on Monday across the vast West African country after the vote Sunday saw one poll worker killed and […]

Mali Opposition Challenges Presidential Election Results

Mali Opposition Challenges Presidential Election Results

Mali’s main opposition candidate and another contesting for the presidency have appealed to the nation’s Constitutional Court to investigate alleged violations during the July 29 elections. Soumaila Cissé, who received the second-largest number of votes submitted evidence of ballot box stuffing to the Court, Baguiba Bah, a spokesman for his campaign team told Bloomberg News. […]

Mali election: President Keita to face-off against rival Cissé in second round

Mali election: President Keita to face-off against rival Cissé in second round

Mali’s presidential election will go to a run-off poll after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita failed to get enough votes to win a second term in office outright, according to preliminary figures provided by the government. Keita won 41.4 percent of the vote in the mostly desert West African country, while rival Soumaila Cisse won 17.8 […]

Any dispute over Mali’s key Sunday vote must be resolved peacefully, says UN envoy

Any dispute over Mali’s key Sunday vote must be resolved peacefully, says UN envoy

With key presidential elections in Mali just two days away, the top United Nations official there on Friday stressed that candidates must accept the results and ensure that the democratic process in Mali is “irreversible”. “It is necessary that everybody goes to vote in a peaceful way and that the actors competing in this election […]

Low turnout for Mali election as violence mars poll

Low turnout for Mali election as violence mars poll

Malians went to the polls on Sunday in a crucial presidential election as attacks disrupted voting in areas already beset by deadly ethnic and jihadist violence. Counting has started in some of the 23,000 polling stations which closed at 1800 GMT. First results are expected within 48 hours and the official outcome is set to […]

DP World to Build and Operate New Logistics Hub in Mali

DP World to Build and Operate New Logistics Hub in Mali

Global trade enabler DP World (http://web.DPWorld.com) has signed a 20-year concession with an automatic 20-year extension with the Republic of Mali to build and operate a 1000-hectare modern logistics hub outside of Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali. The multimodal logistics platform, Mali Logistics Hub (MLH), will have inland container depots (ICD) and […]

Eight million Malians vote in presidential polls dominated by security concerns

Eight million Malians vote in presidential polls dominated by security concerns

Malians have voted in a crucial presidential election as attacks disrupted polling in areas already beset by deadly ethnic violence. Despite the deployment of 30,000 security personnel throughout the country, several incidents were reported on Sunday in the country’s northern and central regions. Voting was briefly suspended at a polling station in a village in […]

Africa: A Tale of Two Elections – Mali and Zimbabwe at the Crossroads

Africa: A Tale of Two Elections – Mali and Zimbabwe at the Crossroads

By the whims of the calendar, back-to-back elections in Mali (July 29) and Zimbabwe (July 30) potentially could change the political landscapes in the Sahel and Southern Africa. In 2013, Mali astounded the international community by organizing a successful presidential election in just two months in the aftermath of a bloody civil war only staunched […]

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