22/11/2016 (Agence Europe) – The day after the local elections on 20 November in Mali, the EU welcomed “an important stage in the normalisation of the situation the country” but regretted conditions of insecurity that had marred the election. On the evening of Monday 21 November, a Spokesperson for the European External Action Service explained, “Some of the voters, particularly in the north of the country were unable to cast their votes at the ballot box, mainly because of security...