Mali holds parliament run-off in effort to return to stability

Voters grumbled about a lack of trust and the quality of candidates as they turned out Sunday to vote in parliamentary run-off elections, part of a process designed to mark the final stage in Mali's return to constitutional order after a coup. According to dpa, UN peacekeepers patrolled Bamako in vehicles with Malian police. The UN mission said it was on heightened alert after a car bombing Saturday at a bank in the city of Kidal killed two Senegalese peacekeepers. Voting, however, was orderly in the capital as police at polling stations checked voters identification before allowing voters to enter. Still, it got off to a slow start. Aboubakar Traore, chairman of polling station number 2 at the Nelson Mandela School, said fewer people seemed to be voting than in the first round.