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Mali president announces election date on Belgium visit

11:49 15/05/2013

After months of speculation, Mali’s interim leader yesterday confirmed that the country’s presidential election would take place on July 28. On a visit to Belgium ahead of a donors’ conference for Mali, president Dioncounda Traore also said that neither he nor any member of the transitional government would run for office. A field of about a dozen candidates is expected to take part in the election, which faces significant logistical and security challenges. Some critics have questioned how the vote can go forward when hundreds of thousands of Malians remain displaced. Radical jihadists have launched a series of suicide bombings in the north, raising fears for the safety of the vote, which comes more than a year after a coup toppled the previous government

(AP)

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