Word: bamako
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...universe: we know it's there because we can see its consequences, but it is terribly hard to get hold of and examine under a microscope. The U.N. Development Program in Mali is researching this question with the government's encouragement. TORE ROSE, Resident Representative U.N. Development Program Bamako, Mali...
...reached. Since its creation in 1993, Mali's Decentralization Mission has been educating the public about a modern democratic version of such local control. The country is divided into eight regions, 50 districts, 701 communes and thousands of villages. District chiefs are no longer appointed from the capital of Bamako but elected locally. Later this year, the communes will hold elections. "Reinforcing democracy," says President Konare, "means devolution of power to the communities...
...profits have helped transform N'Tjinina, a hamlet of 49 families, 1,263 people, deep in the countryside southeast of Bamako. There are still no paved roads, no electricity, no running water anywhere in the district. But with help from its CMDT-sponsored village association, which bought insecticides, oxen and a weighing machine, the families regularly harvest bumper crops. Mali's Producers' Union, a rarity in Africa, negotiates with CMDT to set prices for the farmer, and the village association receives block earnings. Extra profits are pooled, and so far N'Tjinina has bought two water pumps and built three...
...elusive promise of African democracy gained new strength in Mali last week as President Moussa Traore was overthrown by his disenchanted army, after 22 years of military dictatorship. The coup was triggered by three days of pro- democracy rioting in the capital of Bamako, during which at least 150 civilians were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in clashes with Mali's security forces...