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

Malians on Monday awaited the outcome of a presidential election run-off they hope will usher in a new dawn of stability following a military coup which upended one of the region’s most stable democracies.

Tunisia’s Tamarod (Rebel) movement said Sunday that it had collected 1.6 million signatures demanding the dissolution of the country’s Constituent Assembly and resignation of the government.