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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 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 […]

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 […]

Mali holds key elections amid Insecurity, fraud concerns overshadow key polls

Mali holds key elections amid Insecurity, fraud concerns overshadow key polls

Five years after an international military intervention designed to restore peace, Malians will vote Sunday with the vast West African nation still confronting the threat of jihadist and ethnic violence. While polls suggest President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 71, is favourite to see off 23 rivals in the poll, the main Al-Qaeda-linked jhadist alliance made its […]

Mali Govt Should Implement Recommendations On Rule of Law

Mali Govt Should Implement Recommendations On Rule of Law

Human Rights Watch welcomes the adoption of the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review for Mali, and, in light of ongoing concerns about weak rule of law and the dramatic increase in reports of human rights abuses both within the context of counterterrorism operations and combatting communal violence, we urge the government to swiftly and […]

Three Predictions About Mali’s 2018 Presidential Election

Three Predictions About Mali’s 2018 Presidential Election

It is hard to see how anything good, or different, will come from Mali’s election on 29 July. News from Mali just keeps getting worse. More than five years after French soldiers ousted jihadi fighters from northern Mali and nominally restored central government sovereignty there, the country has grown ever more unsafe and fractious. The […]

Emmanuel Macron Visits French Troops in Northern Mali

Emmanuel Macron Visits French Troops in Northern Mali

President Emmanuel Macron visited French troops fighting armed groups in the West African country of Mali on Friday, during his first official visit outside Europe. At the end of his first week in office, Macron flew into Gao, a city in Mali’s north, where political unrest and ethnic strife have raged for more than five […]

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