WAR , TERRORISM – Victim of violence Mali goes to elections

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Violence-defending Mali, where extremist Islamists from al-Qaida and the IS control vast areas of choice. Peace has barely fallen for this reason.

– I hope a stable Mali, a peaceful Mali, the country's president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 73 years old, when he led this election campaign this week.

Keita was prime minister from 1994 to 2000, then president of the National Assembly and was elected president in 2013. Many say that he will be reelected, but no one believes that peace will flow on the Mali for this reason.

Mali is a bankrupt state, where central authorities have lost control of vast parts of the country.

The 15 million inhabitants of the country experienced a military coup and a rebel tiger in the north, where Islamic militants from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) took over. control of several cities in 2012, including Timbuktu.

With French military support, cities were recovered the following year, but Islamists still control important parts of northern Mali, where they introduced sharial.

Foreign Forces

The UN has a peacekeeping force of 15,000 men in Mali since 2013. More than 100 soldiers of MINUSMA forces are killed and l 39; peace operation is now considered the most dangerous of the UN.

About 4,000 French Barkhane soldiers and an unknown number of US soldiers are also in place in the country. It is now a regional force that, with the support of the EU and Norway, must fight terrorism and stop the flow of migrants from the Sahel region to the north. ;Europe.

Despite the foreign military presence, however, militant Islamists control large parts of northern Mali, where Sharialover was introduced. They also conducted a series of attacks against foreign forces in the country's central regions recently.

Alerts to Vote

Al-Qaeda warned people not to vote in Sunday's elections, and many suggest that ISIS and other militant groups will mark their presence on election day.

President Keitas has therefore hardly fulfilled the hope of peace, although he is re-elected for five more years in Sunday's elections.

The most prominent candidate among the 23 other presidential candidates is Soumaila Cisse, 68 years old. He criticized the president for his lack of willingness to solve the country's main security problems, but he almost never patented himself.

Cheick Modibo Diarra, a 66-year-old former prime minister, an astrophysicist who also has US citizenship and worked for NASA, can also join the fight for the presidency, even though he is unlikely.

The big question is whether the election in Mali will have legitimacy, because participation may be very low and the accusations of irregularities numerous.

(© NTB)