Word: malian
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Although CMDT, the Malian Company for the Development of Textiles, which monopolizes the country's cotton production, is state owned, it is decentralizing, transforming a money-losing dinosaur into an engine for local development. Putting cotton plants into rotation with cereal crops, CMDT not only grows higher-quality cotton but also keeps farmers producing less pricey but essential maize, millet, sorghum and rice. Says Chaka Berte, a CMDT management director: "The farmers are taking their cotton money and diversifying. Good for them. Good for Mali...
Flanked by at least six U.S. secret service agents, a dozen Malian officials, several Cambridge police officers, two stretch limousines and a ten-car motorcade, Mali Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita arrived on the Kennedy School of Government campus yesterday afternoon...
After delivering his introductory comments the prime minister initiated an open discussion, most of which was conducted in French, the Malian national language...
...Malian government, based upon the French political system, has both a prime minister and a president at its helm. The prime minister is the more influential of the two government leaders, said Rita M. Breen, executive officer for the Committee on African Studies...
...prime minister's stay, the first official visit of a Malian official to Harvard, resulted from the invitation of K. Anthony Appiah, chair of the Committee for African Studies...