Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore has met for the first time with members of two northern Tuareg separatist groups, ahead of the presidential and general elections to be held this coming Sunday.
The elections are meant to unify the West African nation after a March 2012 coup created a vacuum and allowed for al Qaeda-linked Islamist allies to seize the country's desert north.
A military offensive earlier this year routed and scattered the Islamist fighters, African Union
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