The government lifted the state of emergency that had been imposed since Jan. 12, the day after the start of the French intervention to recover territory seized by Islamists in the north. Authorities are scrambling to prepare for presidential elections on July 28; some 500,000 Malians are still displaced from the turmoil that began over a year ago.
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