Full Coverage: Mali

01.09.2009 A major setback for gender campaigners as protests in Mali persuade the president to reject a new law improving the rights of women. BBC News

01.11.2007 Explore, through this video, the daily routine of one doctor in a small, isolated village in Southern Mali as he tends to the medical needs of over 40,000 patients.

30.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (OneWorld) - One of the most favorable yet systematically overlooked characteristics of solar, wind, biomass, and other types of organic energy is their universality.

08.08.2007 In Coura, a district of Mali's capital Bamako, it's now possible to monitor the health of local infants closely in real time with the launch of a new pilot project dubbed Pesinet.

05.06.2007 Some 700 communities in Mali are already profiting from the affordable renewable energy provided by a plant grown in the region. The country hopes to one day meet its entire power needs with this hardy plant, inevitably boosting the standard of living for the countyÂ’s 80-percent rural population.

29.05.2007 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor.

03.05.2007 A unique campaign that ranges from personal discussions to mass media programs is convincing many in Mali to give up the practice of female genital cutting.

03.02.2006 The primary goal of this project is to solve the information and communication problems of farmers in the Mandé region, south of Bamako in Mali. The almost total lack of infrastructure in this region makes it very difficult for the implementing organisation Fabema to reach its constituent members and to inform them about activities, awareness workshops and market prices.

31.01.2006 Ordinary cotton-growers and other farmers have voted against introducing genetically-modified crops in a "citizens' jury" in Mali and instead proposed a package of recommendations to strengthen traditional agriculture and support for local farmers.

25.01.2006 Malian farmers will this week decide whether GM technology is the way forward for the world's fourth poorest country, through a "citizens' jury" that will cross-examine international experts before reaching its decision.

21.12.2005 The final report for the USAID funded Mali CLIC project is now
available.

09.09.2005 The village is nice, sprawling alongside a river with a couple of trees and the dunes behind it. But it is hot, very hot, even in the rainy season. It was a refreshing sensation to feel the light wind blow in Tombouctou at 40°C ...

18.08.2005 In an effort to feed an additional 175,000 children in the hardest-hit parts of Mali and to avoid it slipping into a humanitarian crisis similar to neighbouring Niger, the UN World Food Programme has almost doubled its emergency appeal for the West African country to $13.6 million.

16.08.2005

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West Africa is entering a yearly cycle of chronic food shortage. This year, due to several natural events, the shortage will turn into crisis if help is not sent. Almost 100 percent of last season's crops were destroyed by swarms of desert locusts. Coupled with scarce rainfall during the majority of planting season, much of West Africa is speeding towards mass starvation. Approximately 3.6 million people in Niger alone currently are at risk of food shortage. Through GlobalGiving, you can help the people of West Africa by contributing to a project that will provide food assistance.

10.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 10 (OneWorld) - Famine in Niger is the most visible sign of a West African food crisis that could have been averted had international donors not been so stingy with some of the world's poorest countries, a leading aid group has said.

04.08.2005 Although the World Food Programme has received 57% of emergency food aid needed for Niger, millions more in the neighboring countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania are threatened by a major food crisis as well, because rich countries have not responded to months of appeals for emergency funds, warned Oxfam on Wednesday.

04.08.2005 More than 130,000 people donated £5.4m to the Disasters Emergency Committee Niger Crisis Appeal on the day of its launch.

04.08.2005 Over one million Malians are at risk from the major food crisis gripping West Africa because rich countries have not responded to the call for emergency funds, an international development agency warns.

18.07.2005

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As a result of severe drought and a recent plague of locusts, the rates of malnutrition and lack of access to grazing land and clean water have reached dangerously high levels in the Mali and Niger. Action Against Hunger is calling on the United States, as well as the other Group of 8 countries, to intervene in an emergency in northern Mali and Niger.

07.07.2005 What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology?