Mali polling officials abducted
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Two young fighters of an Islamist group walk in the streets of Gao city in Mali on July 17, 2012. Gunmen have abducted four polling staff and a local official in the northern Malian town of Tessalit, a week before a presidential poll meant to restore the country's unity, a local official said. (AFP/File)
Gunmen abducted four polling staff and a local official on Saturday in the northern Malian town of Tessalit, a week before a presidential poll meant to restore the country's unity, a local official said.
"Four electoral staff and an elected Tessalit official, all of them Malian... were snatched by gunmen Saturday," an official in the Kidal governorate told AFP.