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NetImpact, a California-based health-care company, is applying technology to improve health-care delivery and disease control in Mali, one of the poorest nations in Africa. Earlier this year OnQ Africa B.V., a for-profit company in the Netherlands that invests private and public money in subSaharan health, telecom and education, awarded NetImpact a $125 million contract to install MDS 200, a portable disease-detection device, and NetCare 7.0, a software package that stores and analyzes medical data. MDS 200, which can run on battery or solar power in areas without electricity, instantly screens for viruses like...
...Ghana last week did little to temper calls for more peacekeepers. Around 1,000 troops, mostly Nigerians, have been deployed by ECOWAS, the union of West African states. With just 200 U.S. soldiers supporting ECOWAS from a force of 2,300 offshore, additional forces from South Africa, Senegal and Mali - and some $55 million in E.U. aid - are eagerly awaited. Cleaning Up the Past ARGENTINA The Senate approved legislation revoking amnesties for military officers accused of torturing and murdering opponents during the country's "Dirty War" two decades ago. Human rights groups claim that about 1,000 officials - implicated...
...country embodied the spirit of pan-Africanism that swept the continent at the time of independence it was Ivory Coast. The country's vibrant cocoa and coffee industries were built on the sweat of laborers from French-speaking Mali and Burkina Faso and Anglophone Ghana and Nigeria. Millions of new arrivals helped make Abidjan, the commercial capital, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan cities. For many years even the term refugee was considered dirty because, in the words of founding President Félix Houphou?t-Boigny, citizens of neighboring African countries should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian...
...anyone who missed Maal, or could do with some blood-warming African music to make up for East Coast weather, World Music bring Ladysmith Black Mambazo back to Sanders for their annual performance on Sunday, Feb. 10th, as well as Kandia Kouyate of Mali to the Somerville Theatre on the 17th...
...Look Beautiful Like That” showcases the work of two contemporary photographers from Mali, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. Both photographers—who have lived and worked in Bamako, the capital of Mali, since the early 1950s—began their work with six by nine cm Kodak Brownie cameras. Soon they each had their own commercial photography studios in Bamako, eventually producing tens of thousands of portraits for members of Bamako’s elite...