Members of Mali’s Defense and Security Forces (FDS) along with paramilitary services including Customs, exercised their right to advance voting on Sunday in Bamako and other parts of the country.

State authorities have confirmed that the day transpired without any significant incidents.

However, in Kidal, the reconstituted armed forces abstained from participating in the voting process.

Bamako, correspondent Ramatou Haïdara, has more in this report voiced by Oge Obierika.