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MALI / KIDAL ELECTIONS
STORY: MALI / KIDAL ELECTIONS
TRT: 1.45
SOURCE: MINUSMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH/ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 12 JULLY 2013, KIDAL, MALI
1. Med shot, UN Commander in Kidal salutes Malian officials
2. Med shot, UN staff unloading electoral kits from the plane
3. Close up, French soldier moving boxes on truck bed
4. Wide shot, UN plane, truck, kits
6. Med shot, UN armoured vehicle with UN soldier in front
7. Close up, UN armoured vehicle with UN soldier in front
8-9. Tracking shot, Protest at the entrance of Kidal
10. Med shot, former Electoral Office in Kidal, with French soldiers in front
11. Pan left. Blue Helmet guiding vehicle
12. Tilt down, electoral lists from 2011 on the wall
13. Wide shot, delegation with old electoral lists in foreground
14. Med shot, Malian governor, UN Kidal Commander and UN rep talking
15. Close up, Governor of Kidal
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Danilson Lopes Da Rosa, Political Affairs Officer, MINUSMA:
"The Governor and prefets are actually here in Kidal today to start the electoral process. So they are bringing in the lists that they have compiled. So this is now a verification process that would be followed by the distribution of the NINA cards."
17. Various shot, electoral officials at work
18. Med shot, travel, Blue Helmet on the truck
19. Tracking shot, passing by a truck used in a suicide attack
20. Wide shot, Malian Army compound with Malian flag in foreground
21. Med shot, Governor and UN Kidal Commander shaking hands with Malian Colonel
22. Close up, Malian Colonel
23. Med shot, Governor and Malian Colonel talking
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Col. Amadou Camara, Malian Army:
"We are the advance team of the Malian Army and we are here to start providing security to the population of the town."
25. Med shot, two Malian soldiers on the door.
The governor of the Mali’s town of Kidal returned to his post last week (11 July) following a yearlong absence, ahead of nationwide elections later this month.
The local government authorities had been absent from Kidal for over a year since the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and other armed groups linked to Al Qaeda seized Mali's desert in the northern part of the country.
Other officials flying with Governor Adama Kamissoko brought with them electoral material for the presidential elections set for next July 28, and with only one month to go before the presidential elections take place, Danilson Lopes Da Rosa, a Political Affairs Officer at MINUSMA said that Governor Kamissoko and prefects were actually in Kidal to start the electoral process. So, he added, “they are bringing in the lists that they have compiled. So this is now a verification process that would be followed by the distribution of the NINA (National Identification Numbers) cards."
The return of authorities came as a culmination of the peace process started by the Ougadougou peace accord signing and the deployment of the UN Peace Force in Kidal following French military intervention. The Malian regular army also returned to the town.
Colonel Amadou Camara of the Malian Army said that as the advance team of the Malian Army “we are here to start providing security to the population of the town."
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, meeting with officials in France on the occasion of Bastille Day, stressed the importance of credible elections in the West African country in talks with its interim president.
Earlier this month, the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), took over from the African-led force, with a Security Council mandate "to use all necessary means" to carry out security-related stabilization tasks, protect civilians, UN staff and cultural sites and create the conditions for provision of humanitarian aid.
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