Mali News Archives

If you have the panda passion, today is a big day for you. The San Diego Zoo is releasing the names that have made to the final five for the newest panda baby.

Hello again, panda fans! Ia m happy to report that Bai Yuna s newest cub is doing well.

A billboard in a major square in Bamako, the capital of Mali, perpetrates the hoax broadcast by France 2 of a young Palestinian boy cowering next to his father and screaming for help.

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.

After the last Women Afrobasket at Madagascar where they lost the title to Senegal, Mali will host the 2011 women Afrobasket at Bamako where the former champion will try to win back the African nations women championship.

Women in Mali are encouraging more men to use condoms to slow the spread of the virus that causes AIDS.

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.

Air Mali added ex-AVIANCA McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 TZ-RMK . The new type is now painted in the Air Mali version of the Group Celestair color scheme.

Both Malian people and Chinese diplomats hail the recent visit by a Chinese art troupe a success in promoting cultural exchanges between the two friendly countries.

Ali Bongo Ondimba, the victor in the Aug. 30 presidential elections, took oath of office on Friday at the Presidential Palace in Libreville and succeeded his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died on June 8 at the age of 73, after ruling the West African country for 41 years.

Canadians teach peacekeeping to African troops Two Canadian military officers, Major Francois Provost and Major Marc Chabot , with a local guard at the entrance of a new school in Bamako, the capital of Mali, which trains African soldiers for peacekeeping.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasite in the world.

Talatou Abdoulaye came to Utah for an advanced college degree but had no idea the classes would be so different from the ones offered in his home country of Mali.

Parents are supposed to outlive their children, or so thought the grandmothers sitting in the children's playroom at Gabriel TourA© hospital in Bamako, capital of Mali.

Telemedia Group has launched Telemigrants Mali, an innovative pilot program designed to provide a continuous high speed Internet between two remote villages Kersiniane and Yelimane and native migrants based in Montreuil, in the outskirts of Paris.

The antibiotic doxycycline is an effective treatment against the lymphatic filarial parasite Mansonella perstans , according to a study in the Oct.

Yaya I. Coulibaly, M.D., Benoit Dembele, M.D., Abdallah A. Diallo, D.E.A., Ettie M. Lipner, M.P.H., Salif S. Doumbia, Siaka Y. Coulibaly, M.D., Siaka Konate, M.D., Dapa A. Diallo, M.D., Daniel Yalcouye, Pharm.D., Joseph Kubofcik, B.S., Ogobara K. Doumbo, M.D., Abdel K. Traore, M.D., Adama D. Keita, M.D., Michael P. Fay, Ph.D., Sekou F. Traore, ...

A broad coalition of public and private sector organizatio ns Monday announced a new partnership aimed at raising the yields and incomes fo r smallholder farmers in West Africa by increasing their access to improved, loca l ly-adapted varieties of major food crops, according to a press statement from th e coalition here.

ONE of Mali's most exciting and innovative musicians will be performing at the Centenary Centre at the end of this month.

ABU DHABI // A Unesco committee meeting in the capital yesterday put 12 vanishing cultural activities under its protection - among them a Chinese New Year festival, a form of Corsican singing, and the collective fishing rites of Mali.

Amadou & Mariam at Henry Fonda Theater Fans who missed Amadou & Mariam back in July, when they were the implausible opening act on a Coldplay arena tour, get a second chance to see them tonight, in a relatively intimate setting that should give the blind Malian duo more room to explore the shape-shifting melodies from their 2008 CD, Welcome to Mali ...