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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
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
Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goïta, who carried out two coups in nine months, has been officially sworn in as transitional president in Mali. This is an opportunity for the 37-year-old officer to try to reassure people of his intentions beyond his country's borders. IMAGES
President of Niger Mohamed Bazoum and interim president of Mali Bah Ndaw arrive in N'Djamena a day before the funeral of Chadian president Idriss Déby Itno, who died of wounds sustained on the front lines against rebels. IMAGES