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...while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit the only business opportunities to be found in those barren towns. Unemployment in some neighborhoods surpasses 40%, and hope is a rare possession. "Look, these are all kids who feel they're not considered really French," says Sidaty Siby, a native of Mali, who heads the Franco-African Association in Clichy-sous-Bois. "When they look for work, they don't find it. When they ask for housing, they don't get it. We want everyone to stop burning cars, but people have to realize that there was a reason...
...concert, partying, and dancing. Also featuring Pressure Cooker and Lady Enchantress. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $15 general admission including free CD. (ABW)Balafonist Neba Solo. Harvard’s African Initiative present the Mali-based musician and his troupe. Called “the genius of the balafon,” Souleymane Traoré, aka Neba Solo, plays his xylophone-like instrument. Loker Commons. 3 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. (LAM)Harvard’s Next Top Angel...
...collector Marong, "but they should know they can't." The blockades crippled local trade and boosted inflation in Gambia, which imports much of its fuel and other goods from Senegal. And it cut off access to Gambia's sea port, through which goods flow to neighbors such as Mali and Guinea. Senegalese President Abdulaye Wade suggested that his country should buy its own ferry to use on the River Gambia - or even tunnel under its neighbor. There are many longer tunnels in the world, Wade said, and China had already offered to help dig one here. Earlier this month, regional...
...been abandoned by Moroccan authorities in the desert near the Algerian border. Neither the new measures nor a proposed third fence are likely to be a deterrent. "We try three or four times a week, until we make it," says Nikail, 21, who trekked for a year from Mali to the now denuded woods outside Melilla. "We have no choice: either we get over the fences or we die." That's the sort of desperation that will continue to propel migrants toward the wire...
...scrubby area along the southern edge of the Sahara that is vulnerable to drought, Niger endured a lack of seasonal rains last year followed by a devastating plague of locusts that destroyed most of the crops in the region. Add the food shortages in neighboring Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania, and the WFP says more than 4 million people in the Sahel need help...