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Mali holds delayed legislative polls despite COVID-19, security threats

Malians vote Sunday in a long-delayed parliamentary election, despite a raging terrorist conflict, the recent kidnap of a leading opposition politician and the coronavirus pandemic. Experts see the vote as a key step towards leading the West African state out of its spiral of violence and closer to a political solution to stop the bloodshed. […]

Guinea’s Alpha Conde postpones Sunday’s referendum, legislative elections

Guinea’s president Alpha Condé on Friday announced a ‘slight postponement’ of Sunday’s scheduled referendum on a new constitution and legislative elections, following months of deadly protests against what the opposition sees as a manoeuvre to stay in power. “It is out of national and sub-regional responsibility that we accepted a slight postponement of the election […]