Malians trickle to polls in legislative vote amid security fears

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By Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malians trickled to the polls amid high security for a legislative ballot on Sunday, in the second set of elections since France intervened this year to oust al Qaeda-linked militants from the country's north. The West African country has suffered a surge in Islamist violence since President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was elected in August in polls that marked a return to democracy after a March 2012 coup. The military putsch plunged Mali into chaos and allowed Islamists to seize its desert north. Some 6.7 million people were registered to cast their vote in 25,000 bureaux across the nation twice the size of France.

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