Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Abuja, Nigeria December 16, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi SotundeCAIRO – 29 May 2018: Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on state TV on Monday that he would run for re-election in a poll scheduled for the end of July.Keita, 73, had been widely expected to run for a second term, but had not confirmed his intention. He faces growing political opposition in the capital Bamako, especially among a disaffected youth, and a raging Islamist insurgency and tit-for-tat ethnic killing in the north. "I present myself as a candidate in the presidential election of July 29," Keita said on state TV. Corruption remains endemic, and Mali ranks 175 on the U.N. Human Development Index, only 12 up from the bottom.

Source: Egypt Today May 28, 2018 23:03 UTC