The violence came as the country held its first election since 2013. Turnout was low however due to continuing fears over security despite the presence of international peacekeepers.
In the first incident, security sources told AFP that five Malian soldiers died after being ambushed while transporting ballot boxes in the restive north.
"After the voting yesterday, an army convoy taking the ballot boxes for counting was attacked in the north by jihadists. Five Malian soldiers were killed," a security source said.
In the second attack, in the town of Dilli in southwestern Mali overnight yesterday to today, a group of alleged jihadists nabbed several vehicles and killed a civilian.
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"They arrived early today in Dilli. They attacked a council building. The jihadists then took off with two ambulances and a vehicle, after which they killed a civilian and made off for the Mauritanian border," a local official said, requesting anonymity.
A security source said the assailants were probably hoping to find ballot boxes in the building where counting was under way.
French troops were deployed in 2013 to repel Al-Qaeda-aligned jihadists who had overrun several northern towns, joining forces with Tuareg-led rebels.
Some 11,000 UN military and police have followed, attempting to maintain security, but the jihadists remain active in the north while also spreading to the west African country's central regions.
Yesterday's election - held two years later than scheduled - coincided with the first anniversary of a jihadist attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako that left 20 people dead, many of them foreigners.
The twin attacks were among a string of disruptions to voting in northern and central Mali.
In Timbuktu yesterday, unknown attackers seized and burned electoral papers in multiple raids.
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