Word: mali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Formerly, among the nomads of Mali, a woman's job was to sit in her tent and demonstrate her husband's wealth through her great weight and inactivity," she said...