Timbuktu Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/timbuktu/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Timbuktu Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/timbuktu/ 32 32 Mali voters scared off voting by jihadists and coronavirus https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/mali-voters-scared-off-voting-by-jihadists-and-coronavirus/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/mali-voters-scared-off-voting-by-jihadists-and-coronavirus/ Fear of militant groups and COVID19 kept Malians away from the polls in  yesterday’s long-delayed parliamentary elections. Voting began after the country announced its first coronavirus death. The country has 18 confirmed cases of COVID 19 ends intro By noon, the voter turnout in Mali’s parliamentary election was still in single figures. President Ibrahim Boubacar […]

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]]> Fear of militant groups and COVID19 kept Malians away from the polls in  yesterday’s long-delayed parliamentary elections.

Voting began after the country announced its first coronavirus death. The country has 18 confirmed cases of COVID 19

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By noon, the voter turnout in Mali’s parliamentary election was still in single figures.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita determined to press ahead with the first poll since 2013 despite the kidnapping of opposition leader Somaila Cisse.

Civil society organisations call in vain for a postponement of the election.

Yesterday a polling officer in Timbuktu was kidnapped. 

Six candidates were kidnapped in Bamako and a polling station was ransacked in Boni.

At least 275 of the 12 500 polling stations failed to open because of intimidation.

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