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Ibrahim ag Youssouf
Noted Malian peacemaker

Zakiyatou Oualett Halatine
Malian peacemaker and former 
Minister of Tourism and Culture

Updates on MALI's current situation:

Mali holds national elections Sunday, July 28 2013. The two candidates with the highest number of votes will move on to a run-off election in August. A new president and a new administration are about to be formed.

THE PROBLEM OF CHILD SOLDIERS IN MALI

The recent conflict in North Mali has raised yet again the problem of children as victims of war. Girls are even more vulnerable than boys: this is proven by the rumored rapes that took place in the city of Gao last summer, when it was invaded and taken over first by MNLA troops from the former Libyan army, and then by MUJAO jihadists.

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