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.

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, …