MALI / ELECTIONS

After more than a year of turmoil,Mali held peaceful presidential elections on Sunday (28 July), a vital step to restoring constitutional order in the crisis-hit country. MINUSMA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:44
• Production Date: 29 July 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN MALI - MINUSMA
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; ELECTIONS
• Geographic Subject: MALI; MALI
• MAMS Id: U130729e

Description

STORY: MALI / ELECTIONS
TRT: 1.44
SOURCE: MINUSMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 28, 29 JULY 2013, BAMAKO, MALI

Shotlist

28 JULY 2013, BAMAKO, MALI

1. Wide shot, exterior polling site
2. Close up, people reading voter lists
3. Med shot, people reading voter lists
4. Wide shot, polling site interior
5. Med shot, poll workers going over lists
6. Med shot, man casting his vote
7. Med shot, woman casting her vote
8. Close up, voter list
9. Med shot, poll workers checking voter’s id
10. Close up, ballot box with voters and poll workers in background
11. Med shot, poll workers checking voter’s id
12. Wide shot, exterior polling site
13. Med shot, poll workers
14. Med shot, poll workers checking voter’s id
15. Med shot, peacekeeper outside polling site
16. Wide shot, peacekeepers searching voters outside polling site
17. Med shot, peacekeeper with machine gun
18. Wide shot, peacekeeper with machine gun
19. Close up, Malian flag on military truck

29 JULY 2013, BAMAKO, MALI

20. Tilt up, from voters list to EU observer Louis Michel
21. Med shot, Michel
22. Tilt up, from voters list to EU observer Louis Michel
23. Close up, voter list
24. Zoom out, poll worker emptying ballot box
25. Med shot, poll worker counting ballots

Storyline

After more than a year of turmoil, Mali held presidential elections on Sunday (28 July), a vital step to restoring constitutional order in the crisis-hit country.

The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said that yesterday's voting in the first round of Mali's presidential election took place peacefully.

Turnout is reported to have been high across the country, although no official figures have been released yet. The authorities will announce the vote’s results before Friday.

MINUSMA acknowledges the excellent cooperation between UN and Malian forces in the provision of electoral security.

The Mission added that international and national observers were present in all regions, including Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal. The mission provided security support to the Malian Defence and Security Forces throughout the day, and continues to help secure the counting centres.

The election is considered to be an important step on the path to recovery for the West African nation that, over the course of last year, witnessed a military coup d’état, renewed fighting between Government forces and Tuareg rebels, and the seizure of the northern part of the country by radical Islamists.