Malians waited Tuesday for final election results after Sunday’s second-round runoff between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali and URD opposition candidate Soumaila Cissé, who has already dismissed the outcome as illegitimate. Cissé called on his supporters to rise up and refuse to accept a president elected by fraud. His…
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali was expected to win Sunday’s second-round runoff election, as he faced Soumaila Cissé, the main URD opposition candidate, to determine the country’s final presidential election result. Keïta, the EPM party’s incumbent candidate, received 41.4 percent of votes cast in the July 29 election, according…
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali will face Soumaila Cissé, the main URD opposition candidate, in a second-round runoff to determine the country’s final presidential election result. Keïta, the EPM party’s incumbent candidate, received 41.4 percent of votes cast on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Territorial Administration responsible for…
As yet, there’s no clear outcome following Sunday’s presidential election in Mali, with an August 12 runoff likely between EPM candidate and incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Soumaila Cisse, the main URD opposition candidate. There’s also been a claim from ADP candidate Aliou Diallo, right, who says he received…
Preliminary results of Sunday’s presidential election aren’t expected until later this week, but officials in Mali have issued a first assessment of the voting process. The polls were closed at 716 stations for various reasons, many of them because of violence in the country’s north and central regions. Incidents included…