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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...
Wilde recently took over the post of Nairobi bureau chief from John Borrell, a correspondent in Africa for twelve years, who joined TIME 15 months ago. Borrell visited half a dozen countries for the story, and even made his way to Timbuktu, the remote Malian walled city that for centuries has conjured up exotic images among non-Africans...
...program. "Without it, there would have been mass famine." While effective, the effort has been hampered by instances of corruption or indifference, particularly in Mali and Chad. Shrugged a Chad colonel when asked about piles of undistributed food: "If the nomads are hungry, let them come to population centers." Malian officials have also displayed a spectacular indifference to distributing supplies...
Groaning Lorries. The bedraggled caravans are filled with Hausa tribesmen in flowing white robes, bare-breasted Yoruba women from Nigeria, Malian water carriers, Upper Voltan gold miners, Ivorean timber merchants and beggars of all nationalities. The luckier ones started out in trucks or wood-frame "mammy wagons" whose fares have jumped more than 400% since the exodus got under way. For many, travel by whatever means stopped at the border. Groaning lorries carrying homeward-bound Nigerians and Dahomians are stalled in columns miles long because they have not received permission to cross tiny Togo. An unknown number of people have...
...have tracked everything from 24 million bushels of U.S. wheat diverted from Austria and sold on European markets ($800,000 in settlements has been recovered) to 3,600 pairs of U.S.-supplied boots found moldering in a Mali warehouse because local American officials groundlessly thought them too small for Malian feet (the footwear was issued to the country's soldiers...