Mediating Means and Fate: A Socio-Political Analysis of Fertility and Demographic Change in Bamako, Mali (African Social Studies Series)
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The 13th UNCTAD's African Oil, Gas, Minerals, Trade and Finance Conference, takes off toady in Bamako, Mali with focus on the critical role information can play in the natural-resource sector.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Confronted with a need to recruit more teachers necessary to attain Education for All (EFA) goals in Africa by 2015 and the need for quality in education delivery, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the World Bank, Education International (EI) and the Malian Ministry of Basic Education, Literacy and National Languages brought stakeholders from 22 countries to Bamako,...
Unicef (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
GAO VILLAGE, Mali, 23 October 2009 – In the village of Gao, some 1200 km away from Mali's capital city of Bamako, local children were given the special chance to speak to UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne – live from space.
SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
SAN, 23 October 2009 (IRIN) - Have you checked in with your breastfeeding support group? If you were a woman who gave birth in one of Mali’s 48 “baby-friendly hospitals”, you should have been assigned to one that checked up on you – often as soon as minutes after the delivery. In San village, 380km north of the capital Bamako, dozens of mothers in 2005 formed the “Good...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
When a storm hits in Togo, disaster relief items must be flown in from Brindisi, Italy, but that is just too far, according to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is formalizing the region's first government-operated humanitarian stockpile in Mali's capital Bamako.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
BAMAKO, Mali -- The United States is providing security forces in the West African nation of Mali with more than $5 million in new vehicles and other equipment.
The Torch (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Good on the Globe and Mail for this story on one of the wide-range of things the CF in fact do: ... Two Canadian military officers, Major Francois Provost (right) and Major Marc Chabot (left), with a local guard at the entrance of a new school in Bamako, the capital of Mali, which trains African soldiers for peacekeeping. ... A few years ago, Major François Provost was in Congo when two of his...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Parents are supposed to outlive their children, or so thought the grandmothers sitting in the children's playroom at Gabriel Touré hospital in Bamako, capital of Mali. They had all lost their children to AIDS-related illnesses, and met each other when they brought their HIV-positive grandchildren on hospital visits.
Hard Wax (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Yaala Yaala 001 CD (US CD) - € 17.00 "The name Yaala Yaala was taken directly from what many a Bougounian musician would answer when asked 'Ca va?' (how’s it going?); 'Yaala yaala,' they'd answer. Just wandering. Yaala Yaala Records' goal is to release this music, in addition to similar music from parts of the world, particularly Mali and West Africa, that you might hear if you were...
Hard Wax (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Sublime Frequencies 012 CD (US CD) - € 17.00 Bush Taxi Mali is an aural tour through the heart of Mali. These field recordings were made by Tucker Martine in 1998 while traveling throughout the West African country. This blend of bluesy Ngoni’s, clamoring street sounds, the stunning voice of Jalimusa Amanita Diabate (of the famous Diabate family), passing radios, Fulani flutes, runaway...
CICR (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Bamako (ICRC) – With support from the Mali Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched an aid operation in behalf of 231 displaced families in Ansongo Cercle (Gao Region), northern Mali.
France24 (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Some 50,000 people joined a demonstration in Bamako on Saturday to protest against legislation that would strengthen the rights of women in Mali. Leading imams and Muslim scholars say the new law "violates several articles of faith."
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
American blogger in Bamako writes about her experiences while conducting a survey in rural Mali: We left around 8:30 in the morning (I knew even then that this was way too late of a start). We walked 1km to the moto taxi junction and waited for a moto taxi. Eventually we found one that was [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
This is a strikingly, inherently visual and rock-infused show, turning what you might expect from a duo once bluntly dubbed "the blind couple from Mali" upside-down. Amadou and Mariam work with Manu Chao and Damon Albarn these days, of course, and have just supported Coldplay in the US, and Blur at Hyde Park. They have been ever-present at Albarn's culture-mashing, night-long Africa Express...
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2009
Banksy certainly likes taking busman's holidays. A visit to the West African country of Mali a few months ago produced a sprinkling of graffiti between Bamako and Timbuktu. Photos of these works turned up in the Banksy v Bristol Museum exhibition ( CLICK ). The title link takes you to a collection of Banksy's African graffiti posted by a Flickr® group.
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