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23 unusual facts about Mali


Bakari Sumano

Finally, he put in place official ceremonies for the naming of head griots in different cities, such as San and Naréna.

Balla Moussa Keïta

Keïta initially worked as a middleman trader, buying fish and rice from Mopti and Dioro and reselling them in Bamako.

Bani River

The river enters the Inland Niger Delta north of San and after the annual rains the river floods (the French word crue is sometimes used) and covers the floodplain.

In 2006 the Talo Dam was constructed to irrigate parts of the floodplain to the south of the river near the town of San.

Carnaval de Oruro

Other members of the jury included the President of the Republic of Mali, Alpha Oumar Konare, the Kabaka of Uganda, His Majesty Ronald Muwenda Mutebi il, Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan, the Bolivian singer Zulma Yugar and Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.

Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology

Among the countries that host ISAAA BICs include: Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Mali, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes

He founded the French forts at Kita (1881) and Bamako (1883), which became two of the key towns of French Soudan.

Borgnis-Desbordes arrived in Bafoulabé on 1 January 1881, and moved his forces onto Kita on 7 February, where he established his headquarters.

Jean-Baptiste Marchand

He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French.

Kalana

Kalana, Mali, town in Gouandiaka Commune, Yanfolila Cercle, Sikasso Region, Mali

Lafia

:For the town in Mali see Lafia, Mali

Massa Makan Diabaté

Born in 1938 in Kita, Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of West African poets (griots).

Moussa Konaté

Moussa Konaté (1951 – 30 November 2013) was a Malian writer who was born in Kita.

Mukhtar al-Kunti

Al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Kunti was born in 1729 in the Erg Oralla region to the north of Mabroûk, Mali.

Néma

Nema is close to the Malian border and there is constant traffic, either heading south to Mali via Adel Bagrou, East to Bassikounou and Léré (Mali) or north to the ancient town of Oualata (pronounced Walata).

Office du Niger

The irrigation scheme utilizes two ancient branches of the Niger River, the Fala de Molodo that runs northwards from the Niger for 135 km to the Alatona region and the Fala de Boky-Wéré that runs in an east-northeast direction towards the town of Macina.

The land lies to the northeast of the town of Macina, and at the time was occupied by a number of villages.

Parfait-Louis Monteil

The Almami of San signed a peace treaty placing the town under French protection.

Safo

Safo, Mali, a town and commune in the Koulikoro Region of Mali

Sagala

:For the town in Mali see Sagala, Mali.

Tambaga

:for the town and commune in Mali see Tambaga, Mali

Torodbe

'Umar was defeated by the French at Medine in 1857, losing access to the territories further down the Senegal River.

Tringa

:For the commune of Mali see Tringa, Mali.


7 Walkers

Kreutzmann had been featured as a special guest at several of Mali's concerts since 2008 and the two decided to form an official band together with multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard, best known for his work with Willie Nelson, and Reed Mathis, of Tea Leaf Green.

Abderrahmane Sissako

Abderrahmane Sissako (born October 13, 1961 in Kiffa, Mauritania) is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France.

1998 : La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) (35mm, 67 minutes), set on the last day of the millennium (commissioned for the 2000 Seen By... series featuring other directors such as Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet) and filmed in Sokolo, Mali, Sissako's father's village.

2006 : Bamako (115 minutes), images of Mali's capital: everyday lives, a trial implicating the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for global poverty, a film within a film starring Danny Glover.

Adreno

Mali series media co-processors formerly Falanx, now become ARM Norway

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Ananda Vikatan

Cartoons and illustration also flourished with Artist Maya, 'Mali' Mahalingam, Madhan, Sridhar, Silpi, Thanu and Gopulu.

Azawad

According to Ramtane Lamamra, the African Union's peace and security commissioner, the African Union has discussed sending a military force to reunify Mali.

Bani-Bangou

On 22 January, four foreign tourists were reported kidnapped in Mali, north of Bani-Bangou, while traveling by auto from a festival at Anderamboukané to the Malian town of Ménaka, and on to Gao.

Bank of Africa

The maiden bank of the BOA Group, BOA Mali, was established in late 1982, in Bamako, Mali, by local businesspeople.

Besa Kavajë

The first match the football ever played took place in Mali i Robit, Golem against the Albanian-American Institute in a friendly.

Bongosso

Bongosso (or Bougounso) is a village and seat (chef-lieu) of the commune of Koromo in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali.

BXW

Bankagooma (ISO 639-3 code BXW), a language native to Mali.

Chenanisuchus

Chenanisuchus ("Chenane crocodile") is a genus of dyrosaurid crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Mali and the Late Palaeocene of Sidi Chenane in Morocco.

Cheonan Stadium

On 15 October 2013, the South Korea national football team used the stadium for the first time in the friendly match against Mali, which ended in a 3-1 victory for Korea.

Copper metallurgy in Africa

In sub-Saharan West Africa there were only two known source of copper that were commercially viable Dkra near Nioro, Mali and Takedda in Azelik, Niger.

Demain à Nanguila

A portrait of Mali in the sixties by means of the nightlife in Bamako, the capital’s monuments, women bent under the weight of too many tasks, Nanguila Tomorrow is regarded as the first Malian film.

Dolce Vita Africana

The filmmaker travels to Malick Sidibé's studio in Bamako, Mali, to witness the artist at work and meet many of the subjects of his earlier photographs, whose personal stories also tell the history of Mali.

Empower Mali Foundation

The Empower Mali Foundation is a Utah-based charitable organisation that was created in February 2013 to assist rural communities in Mali, West Africa, in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy.

Gouina Falls

The Gouina Falls or Chutes de Gouina are on the Sénégal River in Mali between the towns of Bafoulabé (upstream) and Diamou (downstream) in the Kayes Region, where the river runs north from the Talari Gorges.

Hamane Niang

After his primary education in Kayes and secondary education in Bamako (Mali), Hamane Niang continued his studies in Dakar (Senegal) where he obtained a Masters in Economic Science and to Caen (France) where he obtained a diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DESS), in finance.

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit agricultural research organization headquartered in Patancheru (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India) with several regional centres (Niamey (Niger), Nairobi (Kenya)) and research stations Bamako (Mali), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe).

Islam in Mali

Extremist worshippers of Islam have been responsible for some reprehensible acts in Mali, most notably what has been nicknamed the Battle of Gao, in which an extremist Muslim group, Ansar Dine began to destroy various World Heritage Sites.

John Talbot Clifton

They turned back in Mali but in 1928 he died in the Canary Islands on the way home.

Jorge F. Ramos

Among former members of the "CRT Ile de France team" is Daba Modibo Keïta from Mali, a heavyweight world champion 2009 and 2007; the first African to become double Taekwondo World Champion.

Khost Province

Khostwal (clans: Lakkan, Tawizai, Sabari, Shamil, Matun, Mali, Mandozai, Khostwal, Mangal from Musa khil sub branch dominating two district up northwest of khowst and Ismail Khel)

Le Boulet

Note the appearance of Nicolas Anelka as a football player, Jamel Debbouze as a prison guard in Mali, and musicians Stomy Bugsy (former Ministère AMER) and Marco Prince (singer of the FFF) and comedian Omar Sy (the duo Omar et Fred) as killer brothers.

Mari Djata

Sundiata Keita (c. 1217 – c. 1255), also called Mari Djata I, founder of the Mali Empire

Mopti Region

Mount Hombori, the highest point in Mali at 1153 meters, is in the Mopti Region, near the city of the same name.

Nada Mali

Nada Mali (born 21 October 1979 in Borovnica) is a Slovenian slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

Niger Basin Authority

Nine nations which include part of the Niger Basin are members: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

Police Beat

The story is narrated by Z in his native Wolof language (the language of Senegal and parts of Mali, the Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mauritania), though he makes the transition to English when interacting with those around him.

Right of asylum

The first list, enacted in July 2005, included as "safe countries" Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius Island, India, Senegal, Mongolia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia.

Robert O. Blake

During his 30-year career in United States Foreign service, Blake served as ambassador to Mali from December 10, 1970 until May 20, 1973 as a member of the Nixon administration, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Samatiguila

The French explorer René Caillié spent five days in Samatiguila in July 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali.

Samir Amin

Subsequently Amin left Cairo, to become an adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963.

Souleymane Dembélé

Souleymane Dembélé (born 3 September 1984) is a Malian football player, currently playing for Stade Malien.

Takedda

In 1285, a court slave freed by Mari Djata, the founder of the Mali Empire, who had also served as a general, usurped the throne of the Mali Empire.

Tambacounda Region

Some of the greatest djembe masters from Segu, Mali came to Tambacounda in the mid 1900s, bringing with them their history, knowledge, and secrets of the djembe.

Television in Mali

Television in Mali was introduced in 1983.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

The Young Girl

The Young Girl is a 1975 Mali film, directed by Souleymane Cissé.

Tondidarou

Tondidarou is a small town and megalithic archaeological site in the Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali, northwest of Niafunké, about 150 kilometres south-west of Timbuktu.

Traditional African religion

These are some of the important centers of religious life: Nri-Igbo, the Point of Sangomar, Ile-Ife, Oyo, Dahomey, Benin City, Ouidah, Nsukka, Akan, Kanem-Bornu, Mali, and Igbo-Ukwu.

Universal Nut Sheller

In 2001 Jock Brandis traveled to Mali to fix a small village's water treatment system.

Verna Gillis

After the closing of Soundscape in 1984, Gillis worked career development with such musicians as Youssou N'dour from Senegal, Yomo Toro from Puerto Rico; Salif Keita form Mali, and Carlinhos Brown from Brazil.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Waman Bapuji Metre

Born in a family of Mali community farmers of modest means in the village of Kalamb, now in Maharashtra state in India, Waman went to high school in the nearest town of Yavatmal, and was reputed to be the first one from his village to attend high school.