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Malian President Amadou Toumani attended the graduation ceremony of Ufuk High School.

In the 20 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, all West African countries have ratified it.

Lebel-Sur-Quevillon, Canada - "Some say that I'm practicing voodoo in the woods, but I'm just very efficient.

Interview with Malick Sidibe: "I Should Keep on Working Much More and Even Better" "When I began to take photographs, I never imaged that my photos would travel around the world." MADRID.- Since 1960, Malick Sidibe has produced photographs in his studio, Studio Malick, located in Bamako.

In a fifth-floor flat of a tower block near Pre Lachaise cemetery in Paris, 50-year-old Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, the co-founder of the brilliant African "desert blues" band Tinariwen, is talking about the first time he heard music.

The capital of Mali, Bamako, is a city rife with poverty that finds its riches in music.

Oumou Sangare's new album Seya is the artists first album in six years. June 25, 2009 - Oumou Sangare began singing at weddings and on the streets more than 25 years ago in Mali's musical metropolis, Bamako.

The 2009 Caramoor International Music Festival celebrates a long Independence Day weekend, July 2nd through July 5th, with performances by guitarist David Leisner, banjo sensation Bla Fleck, the Pacifica Quartet with pianist Jeremy Denk, and great American patriotic and popular music culminating in Caramoor's first-ever dazzling display of ...

"I will literally be going to Timbuktu" said David Koh.The Middletown native will be leaving July 9 to serve the next 27 months with the Peace Corps.

India and US will consult with public and private stakeholders, on how to bring down trade barriers and open markets for exporters as they discuss multilateral issues like the Doha round of world trade talks even as Washington expects New Delhi to take "bold steps" on trade liberalisation and economic reforms.

Seven Gambian Press Union executives and newspaper journalists arrested earlier this week were charged late Thursday.

Malian security forces have killed around 20 suspected Al-Qaeda followers in a raid near the Algerian border targeting a cell thought to have executed a British hostage, security sources said.

Bamako, June 17 : Mali's army has killed at least a dozen militants in an attack on an Al Qaeda base near the border with Algeria, a media report said Wednesday.

Right now we have the two sister pandas on exhibit! Su Lin will be four years old on August 2, and she is about 190 pounds .

IMMEDIATELY AFTER returning from national assignment, Samuel Inkoom stormed the camping base of Kotoko to donate some items to his colleagues.

Suspected al-Qaeda members have killed a senior Malian military officer at his home in Timbuktu, members of his family and security officials said yesterday.

Bamako . Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. Credit: French American Cultural Exchange.

AMADOU AND MARIAM'S latest CD is called " Welcome to Mali ," but it really should be called "Welcome to the World." It's the type of record that is so joyous and positive that it feels like it could bring together warring factions - take note, State Department - but it's really more of a sonic Evite to explore the diverse country in Northwest ...

Black Stars head coach Milovan Rajevac says the absence of the duo of captain Stephen Appiah and Sulley Muntari will not wreck their efforts as they play the Eagles of Mali in Sunday's 2010 World Cup qualifier.

Unstable prices and exchange rates are threatening the competitiveness of Thai rice exports to China, one of the major importers of Thai Hom Mali rice.