Official election results confirm that Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won the Aug. 11 presidential election. Captain Amadou Sanogo, who led the March 2012 coup, was promoted to the rank of four-star general. Three Malian separatist groups, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the Touareg tribal-led Supreme Council for Azawad Unity (HCUA), and the Arab Movement for Azawad (MAA), agreed on Aug. 9 to end acts that could “undermine peaceful co-existence”; they also called for a political settlement with the government and the release of Azawadi detainees.
