After the departure of the junta due to pressure from ECOWAS and the international community, Interim President of Mali, Mr Dioncounda  Traoré will be invested  Thursday, April 12, 2012. His mission is to regain rapidly the occupied part of the country and to organize presidential and parliamentary elections

The northern part of Mali occupied by Tuareg rebels and Islamists are the 2/3 of the Mali surface and has 1,293,449 inhabitants on a total of 14,517,176 inhabitants

recorded in Mali (RGPH 2009)