Top Scoops|The town of Timbuktu is literally the end of the main road crossing the west -African nation of Mali. .. http://oohja.com/x4uR8

RT @tweetmeme The Trouble With Mali: Into Afrika With The Wild Wild East V http://ff.im/-8oXwy

I nominate @fasokan for a Shorty Award in #education because he teaches ICT to the most rural places in #Mali in #Bambara

UNAIDS: Mali to receive US$ 43 million towards HIV prevention: http://is.gd/5MdZ6 #UN #news

@jyfulness Mostly because we can't get accommodation we want but also decided it's best for Mali (our baby) in the short term.

Spain negotiates with Abu Zeid a ransom of Five million Euros - Temoust.org | Le portail du peuple touareg berbère Kel Tamasheq
"AQIM seeks seven million dollars (4.8 million Euros, editor’s note) ransom for the three Spanish aid worker kidnapped on November 29" in Mauritania while delivering humanitarian aid in West Africa on board a convoy, wrote the Spanish...

#Talents #Mali #MicroCredit http://tiny.cc/1ebBT

[Blog Post] Africa Architecture Mali : Mud-walled mosque in Djénné http://toast.tw/100es9

[Blog Post] Africa Anthropology Mali : Sacred Sites of the Dogon http://toast.tw/100erh

RT @malihealth IRIN: Swiss technology testing for counterfeit drugs introduced in #Mali http://bit.ly/59F9XQ

Out with mum getting last minute things for her trip back to Mali

Wish I didn't have to work tomorrow. I'd drive my asd to tulsa and celebrate new years like I used to. Too bad emi and mali are in nz :(

Mali: The Paradox of Plenty (IRIN)
The UN Reports that childhood malnutrition in Mali's "breadbasket" of Sikasso is higher (%16) than in the poor desert north (%15). This is not seasonal ("hunger season" prior to harvest) malnutrition, or amongst the poorest...

Mali Africa Cup squad announced (BBC football)
"The only two locally-based players in the final squad are Soumaïla Diakite and Abdoulaye Maigare who both play for Confederation Cup winners Stade Malien." Both are, sadly, off to an Egyptian club side for next season.

Mali

@andrewghayes We barely mentioned you ;) Too busy talking about wands, travel plans, Mali & other random things! Really enjoyed it. - thx!

AFRICOM Comment on Bases Rumour « Algerian Review
A response to a response on alleged US bases in the Sahara: “Reports started circulating regarding the fact that the Algerian-American talks which were launched a few months ago when Algeria rejected the idea of a permanent base and when Algerian...

Radical Islam meets a buffer in West Africa - washingtonpost.com
A not too bad article on Islam in Mali, which eschews both the US "fear all Muslims" line and the unsubtle "West African Muslims are and always will be all easy going Sufis." Makes reference to the still up in the air Women, Families...

Des Camerounais sans abri meurent dans le désert du Sahara | Le Messager – Quotidien d'informations et de debats au Cameroun
A piece from Cameroon on the plight of hundreds of migrants stranded in Tinzaouaten, the Malian town on the desert border with Algeria. The article also discusses racism and abuse suffered by black African migrants in Morocco and Algeria, unable to get...