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Mali Set for Constitutional ReferendumMalians are due to take part in a referendum on Sunday that paves the way for elections and democratic rule in 2024. Repeated postponements and two military coups have stood in the way of the poll since 2017. The long-awaited referendum is a milestone in the transition of Mali from three years of military rule to democracy. The military junta in power following two coups since August 2020 has promised to ensure elections in the Sahel country by February 2024. Constitutional reform has long been debated in Mali were the referendum had initially been set for 2017. The draft constitution strengthens the power of the president to appoint or sack the prime minister and ministers and dissolve parliament. It also makes provision for the scrapping of French as Mali's official language. The Coalition for Citizen Election Observation (COCEM) meanwhile said its observers were not allowed into Gao and Timbuktu. The group also cited the non-display of electoral lists at polling stations and the absence of pre-printed registration lists.
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Ramaphosa set to meet Putin without full security detailA South African Airways plane carrying Ramaphosa’s Presidential Protection Unit and several journalists was detained for 26 hours at the Warsaw Chopin Airport and barred from flying over Hungarian airspace to reach him in Russia.
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