Eurasia

Boubacar Keita is favourite to become new Mali President

Malians voted in a presidential runoff yesterday with former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita the frontrunner in an election which is critical to restoring stability after a military coup and Islamist rebellion last year. The winner will oversee more than $4 billion in foreign aid promised to rebuild the

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Tunisia leader to meet union chief on crisis

The head of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party Al Nahda is to meet the powerful UGTT trade union chief on Monday on the crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition politician. The UGTT said that its head, Housine Abassi, would meet Al Nahda leader Rashed Gannouchi and Mustafa Bin Jaafar, …

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EU resumes mediation efforts in Egypt

Despite the lack of progress so far, the European Union (EU) will continue efforts to mediate between the Egyptian government and the pro-Morsy opposition, in order to push forward the dialogue between the two sides, said Michael Mann, a spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

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