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<title>Healthcare in Southern Mali [Video]</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81020</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Alternative Energy: Powering Up in Some Surprising Places </title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/152732/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Mobile Service Helps Bring Down Infant Mortality</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/152058/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Malian Crop Could Light All Its Villages</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78739</link>
<description>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 countys 80-percent rural population.</description>
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<title>Angelique Kidjo Partners With World Education</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78628</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Conscientious Objection to Female Genital Mutilation</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78192</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Launch of the Project Information Network in Mandé, Mali</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/126781/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Mali 'farmers' jury' says No to GM crops </title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70191</link>
<description>Ordinary cotton-growers and other farmers have voted against introducing genetically-modified crops in a &quot;citizens' jury&quot; in Mali and instead proposed a package of recommendations to strengthen traditional agriculture and support for local farmers.</description>
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<title>'Citizens jury' to judge GM crops in Africa</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/126136/1/</link>
<description>Malian farmers will this week decide whether GM technology is the way forward for the world's fourth poorest country, through a &quot;citizens' jury&quot; that will cross-examine international experts before reaching its decision.</description>
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<title>Final Report of Mali CLICS is now available </title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/124508/1/</link>
<description>The final report for the USAID funded Mali CLIC project is now 
available.</description>
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<title>Low energy computers for hot and dusty climate </title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/118602/1/</link>
<description>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 ...</description>
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<title>UN steps up Mali appeal to avert crisis</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67560</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Help Prevent Famine in Mali and Niger</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67471</link>
<description>&amp;copy; Action Against Hunger-USA
   

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</description>
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<title>Despite Greater Need, Niger Got Less Aid from Rich Countries, Says Oxfam</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/116888/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Niger's Neighbors Facing Similar Crises, Getting Little Help</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67255</link>
<description>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.</description>
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