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Images of the residence of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in Bamako, where the former president is said to have returned on Wednesday night after being freed by the military of the ruling junta in Mali. IMAGES
The incumbent president of Mali, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 71, casts his vote in the presidential election in a crowded field of 24 candidates -- just one of them a woman -- bidding for the five-year presidency. More than eight million Malians go to the polls in a key electoral test for the fragile Sahel state, battling a wave of ethnic violence and jihadism. IMAGES
Images of Mali's interim president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, leaving the Grand Mosque of Bamako and earlier during the Eid al-Adha prayer before two people tried to stab him. IMAGES
Bamako (Mali), Jun 7 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Life Tiemoko) Colonel Assimi Goita, who led the coup on May 24, officially swore in Bamako on Monday as president of the country, and promised that It will respect the 18-month transitional period that had been decided last August.FOOTAGE OF COLONEL ASSIMI GOITA SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT IN BAMAKO, MALI
Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita is sworn in as transitional president following his second coup in less than a year. The ceremony in Bamako comes after Goita, who headed a coup last August, ousted the civilian president and prime minister of a transitional government on May 24. IMAGES