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Images of Mali's interim president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, leaving the Grand Mosque of Bamako and earlier during the Eid al-Adha prayer before two people tried to stab him. IMAGES
The incumbent president of Mali, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 71, casts his vote in the presidential election in a crowded field of 24 candidates -- just one of them a woman -- bidding for the five-year presidency. More than eight million Malians go to the polls in a key electoral test for the fragile Sahel state, battling a wave of ethnic violence and jihadism. IMAGES
Mali's President, Ibrahim Keita, visits the Radisson Blu hotel where 19 people were killed in an Islamist militant attack, vowing that the assault would not force Mali to shut down. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
In Bamako, a voter heads to the polling station to have his say in the referendum on the governing junta's constitution. The west African nation has been under military rule since an August 2020 coup. Some 8.4 million citizens are eligible to vote "yes" or "no" on the draft constitution in the first electoral test for leader Colonel Assimi Goita, 40, who has vowed to lead the country back to civilian rule in 2024 elections. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog after holding a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, during the first Middle East tour of his presidency. IMAGES
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