Provisional results for the runoff vote in Mali’s presidential elections have been postponed from Wednesday to Thursday for logistical reasons, a senior official said. The delay, he said, will give time for the paper certification of election results to arrive from Tessalit and Menaka in remote northern Mali and from Nampala in the centre. A member of a commission that pools results nationwide said that these three localities were the last to send their documents. Violence, low turnout and accusations of fraud marred the vote, and Cisse on Monday said he would reject the results. The EU, whose observation mission will remain on the ground until results are announced, repeated its call for calm during the electoral process.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2018 15:22 UTC