Mali holds long-delayed polls amid security fears
One candidate is kidnapped and ballot boxes torched in elections two years overdue and denounced by the opposition.
Ballot boxes have been burned in Mali's Timbuktu city and one candidate was kidnapped elsewhere during the first local elections since al-Qaeda-aligned fighters were driven out from several northern towns in 2013.
The election - held two years later than scheduled - coincided with the first anniversary of an armed attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako that killed 20 people, many of them foreigners.