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...rare success story of a young black man from one of France's blighted suburban housing projects using his smarts and business flair to come out on top. (Those banlieues erupted in riots earlier this year.) But Koné's dramatic tale goes deeper. Born in the southern Malian village of Niéna, which even today has no electricity, Koné left for France at age 10 unable to speak French. He went on to obtain a prelaw degree in the hopes of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles, and he was selected...
...long black leather coat, purchased a hunting rifle, and then, in broad daylight, started stalking identifiable foreigners in Belgium's second city. First, he shot and wounded a woman of Turkish descent who had been sitting on a public bench, reading a book. Then Van Themsche killed a pregnant Malian babysitter and the native Belgian two-year-old for whom she was caring. His hunt for further victims was stopped only when a police officer shot him in the stomach after he refused to drop his weapon...
Nouhoum Sissoko, 40, mayor of Marka Coungo and the biggest cotton producer in the district, says the pressure to accept lower prices every year is relentless. "The [Malian] government told us the low prices are because of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Such partners are making pressure on government, and the government is putting pressure on us," he says, sitting in a thatched meeting room next to the mayor's office. Later, on a tour of his 54 acres planted in cotton, he laughs deeply when told of the subsidies and guarantees American cotton farmers enjoy...
...cotton has become a symbol of the inequities of the current system. Mamadou Goïta, a Malian activist, calls cotton "a kind of school for us. It allows us to analyze the way things are going. If we see progress on cotton, we're hopeful that the developing world can convince the West that it needs to change the whole system. So far, we have seen not much...
...spark for last week's chaos came on Oct. 27, with the deaths of two teenagers from the jumble of apartment blocks that make up Clichy-sous-Bois. Bouna Traore, 15, of Malian origin, and Zyed Benna, 17, whose parents are Tunisian, thought they were being chased by police. When they took refuge with a third teenager in the relay station of a high-voltage transformer, Traore and Benna were electrocuted. Locals blamed overzealous policing for the deaths, although an official inquiry late last week found that there had been no pursuit. That evening an angry group demonstrated in front...