A Malian junta soldier stands guard with his gun at their headquaters in Kati outside Bamako April 3, 2012. (Photo: Reuters)
World football govering body FIFA said on Friday that the Group H fixture originally scheduled for Bamako on June 9 would now be played a day later in Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou.
Club sides Ahly from Egypt and Sunshine Stars from Nigeria were stranded for several days in Bamako recently after a coup and an attempted counter-coup forced the closure of the city's airport.
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