© Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/06/2013. Segou,  Mali.  Men and women in the southern Malian city of Segou check the voting register which has been spread across the walls of a local hotel.   These registers are displayed as news broke today (28 Jun 13) that the president of Mali's election, Mamadou Diamountani  has raised doubts over its ability to stage presidential polls.  The elections are seen as essential to restoring democracy to the conflict-scarred country on the planned date of July 28.<br /> <br /> A caretaker government announced the vote last month, raising a number of urgent questions over the possibility of free and fair elections in a nation recovering from a coup that paved the way for Islamist rebels to seize control of the north.     Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
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