#MaliPresidentialElection2013 Ibrahim Keita wins Mali election - TopicsExpress



          

#MaliPresidentialElection2013 Ibrahim Keita wins Mali election after opponent concedes. Mali has been a one party rule for long until the 1991 coup which brought a new constitution. Since then Mali has been one of very few functioning democracies in Africa. Political crisis in Mali was triggered since January 2012 when the people in the north, Tuaregs, staged an armed conflict and declared a separate state .It was purely an internal affair .Many political leaders in the region, especially from neighboring Mauritania, suggested that this crisis could and should be sorted out peacefully rather than military intervention which could destabilize the region. Mali is a land locked country surrounded by Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Coted’Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal and Mauritania .It has a population of 14.5 million of which more than 90 percent are Muslims .Its land area is 1,240,000 square kilometers.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:37:03 +0000

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