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Mali junta to delay 2024 presidential elections

Election officials count ballots in Mali's constitutional referendum, 18 June 2023. The military rulers have announced a delay to presidential elections that were intitially planned for February 2024. © Ousmane Makaveli/AFP

Mali's military government has announced a delay in presidential elections scheduled for February that would return the country to civilian rule.

The two rounds of the election, which were initially set for 4 and 18 February 2024, "will be slightly delayed for technical reasons", spokesperson for the junta, Abdoulaye Maiga, said in a statement read out to reporters in the capital, Bamako, on Monday.

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