BAMAKO: Mali voted on Sunday for a new president in a bid to usher in peace and stability in the first election since a military coup helped plunge the country into chaos.

Voters chose from 27 candidates to lead the nation from the crisis ignited by last year’s mutiny, which allowed Islamists to seize the vast desert north before a French-led military inter-vention dislodged them earlier this year.

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