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UN Women: Mali - Q&A with Saran Keïta Diakité and Traoré Oumou Touré on the peace negotiations

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L-R: Maitre Soyata Maiga, Saran Keïta Diakité, President of women’s peace and security network REPSFECO/Mali, and Diarra Afoussatou Thiero attend a UN Women training on mediation prior to attending peace negotiations in Ouagadougou. Credit : REPSFECO/Mali

 

1 May 2012 - Plunged into an unprecedented crisis following the military coup d’état perpetrated on 22 March 2012 by a military junta, the Malian authorities have embarked upon a process of transition. With the help of UN Women, women in Mali have been represented at the negotiating table.

Saran Keïta Diakité and Traoré Oumou Touré, together with two other women, participated as female mediators in negotiations, held from 15-17 April in Ouagadougou, the capital of neighbouring country, Burkina Faso.

For the full story, see UN Women.


L-R: Maitre Soyata Maiga, Saran Keïta Diakité, President of women’s peace and security network REPSFECO/Mali, and Diarra Afoussatou Thiero attend a UN Women training on mediation prior to attending peace negotiations in Ouagadougou. Credit : REPSFECO/Mali

 

1 May 2012 - Plunged into an unprecedented crisis following the military coup d’état perpetrated on 22 March 2012 by a military junta, the Malian authorities have embarked upon a process of transition. With the help of UN Women, women in Mali have been represented at the negotiating table.

Saran Keïta Diakité and Traoré Oumou Touré, together with two other women, participated as female mediators in negotiations, held from 15-17 April in Ouagadougou, the capital of neighbouring country, Burkina Faso.

For the full story, see UN Women.