Mali's Familiar Faces Jostling for Power

Not newcomers, but establishment veterans appear to be making the running in the Malian elections. Voters appear unconcerned, they just want a legitimate government.

Music blares from the loudspeakers in Gao's Independence Square. Until January of this year, the city in the north of Mali was under Islamist rule. But now a group of women are dancing in the middle of the sandy square. All are wearing the same bright blue skirts and T-shirts, imprinted with the face of presidential candidate Modibo Sidibe. The man himself is on his way to Gao, one of the last stops on his campaign tour through Mali.

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