MALI-CONFLICT-PEACE

Malian Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (R) delivers a speech as (From 2nd L) Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, Nigeria's outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama, Algeria's Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Guinea's President Alpha Conde, Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara and Burkina Faso's President Michel Kafando listen during a ceremony to sign a peace accord between Mali's government and several armed groups on May 15, 2015 in Bamako. Mali's government and several armed groups signed a peace accord May 15 in a ceremony attended by numerous heads-of-state but missing the crucial backing of the main Tuareg-led rebel groups. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) had provisionally initialled the document a day earlier but is demanding concessions and its three principal factions did not attend the rubber-stamping ceremony in the Malian capital Bamako. AFP PHOTO / HABIBOU KOUYATE (Photo credit should read HABIBOU KOUYATE/AFP via Getty Images)