- 1. September 18,2012 Inside MaliSeptember 21, 2012 AUTO 1
2. Source : www.reuters.com www.boston.com People walk past the
Grand Mosque of Djenne, a UNESCO World-Heritage listed site, in
Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. Nearly10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne,
a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Malis
coup detat in late March, after which Islamist rebels took control
of the countrys northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have
comeSeptember 21, 2012 2to Djenne, according to the local tourism
board. (Joe Penney/Reuters) 3. Signs for hotels and tourist
attractions line the road in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. Nearly 10,000
annual tourists visitedSeptember 21, 2012 World Heritage-listed
town, in previous years. Since Malis coup detat in late March less
than 20Djenne, a UNESCO3tourists have come to Djenne, according to
the local tourism board. (Joe Penney/Reuters)# 4. A man practices
reciting Quranic verses handwritten on a piece of wood in front of
the Grand Mosque of Djenne,September 21, 2012 Mali September 1,
2012. 4 REUTERS/Joe Penney 5. The crises in and around Mali are
shaped by an intersection of trends: foodinsecurity and
desertification linked to climate change; an incomplete
transitionto democracy and a growing population of young people
with poor employmentprospects. With its government debilitated by a
coup, the Malian politicalsystem is unable to maintain its reach
into the north where militant, foreign-sponsored radical Islamist
are in control. In addition, the region is in the grip ofa major
food crisis. Mali matters for two reasons. First, the country is
not theisolated place of myth that the Timbuktu legend implies. Its
political crisis is athreat to stability in the region. Second,
instability combined with the food crisishave together had acute
humanitarian consequences. Aid agencies are strugglingto meet basic
needs. Malis industries of gold and cotton are doingcomparatively
well, mainly because theyre located in the south where things
arerelatively calm. Mali needs to fund its transition back to
civilian rule throughelections and retake the northern desert.
Stability in Mali, as the third biggestproducer in Africa, is
important for the global gold market; the gold minersoperating in
the country; and to a lesser extent, the cotton market. Paula
Nelson ( 37 photos total) (www.boston.com)September 21, 20125 6. A
girl stands in the doorway of her house in Djenne, Mali, September
1, 2012.September 21, 2012REUTERS/Joe Penney6 7. A small-scale gold
miner carrying her tools on her head poses for a picture before
heading home after working inKalana, August 25, 2012. Gold mining
in Mali has rebounded since the landlocked West African nations
coup detat inSeptember 21, 20127late March and 2012 national gold
production estimates stand at 500 tonnes. 8. Halidou Zakaria Toure,
49, manager of the Malian Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala,
Mali, poses for aSeptember 21, 2012 picture next to the companys
stock of animal feed made from cotton grain, August 31, 2012. 8
REUTERS/Joe Penney 9. Radio DJ Boubacar "Bouki" Diarra poses for a
picture in his studio in Bamako, September 6, 2012. Since Malis
coup detat in late March, armed assailants thought to have links
with the military have attacked numerous MalianSeptember 21, 2012
journalists. 9 REUTERS/Joe Penney 10. A street is seen through the
window of a primary school in Djenne September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Joe
PenneySeptember 21, 201210 11. A boy chops wood in Djenne, Mali,
September 1, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne,
home to numerous Unesco World Heritage sites, in previous
years.September 21, 2012REUTERS/Joe11Penney 12. A pirogue captain
plying the Niger river tributaries unloads passengers in Djenne,
Mali August 31, 2012.September 21, 201212REUTERS/Joe Penney 13. A
small-scale gold miner rests after a day of work panning for gold
in Kalana August 25, 2012. REUTERS/Joe PenneySeptember 21, 201213
14. A boy rides a bicycle down a street in Djenne, September 2,
2012.REUTERS/Joe PenneySeptember 21, 201214 15. A man in
traditional dress walks past a woman cooking on market day in
Djenne, Sept. 2, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters) #September 21, 2012 15
16. A September 21, 201216traditional Moorish-style window is seen
at an Islamic institute in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. (Joe
Penney/Reuters) # 17. September An Islamic teacher instructs
students in Quranic verses in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. (Joe
Penney/Reuters)#21, 201217 18. Aboubakar Yaro, head of conservation
at the Djenne Library of Manuscipts, holds an Islamic manuscript
from the 15thSeptember 21, 2012 century in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012.
(Joe Penney/Reuters)#18 19. AUTOSource : www.reuters.com
www.boston.comA woman walks by the Grand Mosque of Djenne, on
market day in Djenne September 2, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual
tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in
previous years. Since Malis coup detat in late March,after which
Islamist rebels took control of the countrys northern two-thirds,
less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne,September 21, 2012
according to the local tourism19board.REUTERS/Joe Penney 20.
September 21, 2012 A butcher chops meat at the central market of
Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)# 20 21. AUTOCotton
farmer Karim Traore, 29, surveys his cotton field outside Koutiala,
Mali August 30, 2012. Traore says good rainsthis year have boosted
his crops, which he will sell to the Malian national cotton company
CMDT after harvest in October. Malis cotton sector, which according
to CMDT data directly employs four of Malis 15 million people, has
not been directly effected by Malis political and security crises.
"My crops are doing well and I have not seen any negative
effectsSeptember 21, 2012of the coup detat on my cotton," Traore
said.21 REUTERS/Joe Penney 22. A worker shovels cotton seeds into a
conveyor belt in the ground while a truck delivers a cotton seed
shipment at the Malian Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala,
Mali August 31, 2012. The factory is one of the largest animal
feedfactories in Mali, has lost at least 2 billion francs CFA (US
$4m) since the coup detat, Daouda Toure, the companysmanaging
director said. More than 65 per cent of his animal feed buyers were
in the north, and has lost all of them since September 21, 2012the
Islamist takeover, 22 said.heREUTERS/Joe Penney 23. Workers shovel
cotton seeds onto a conveyor belt in the ground at the Malian
Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala, September 21, 2012Aug. 31,
2012.(Joe Penney/Reuters)#23 24. A worker fabricates a plastic bag
designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company in Koutiala, Mali
August 31, 2012.After Malis military coup detat in late March an
energy crisis forced the factory to close for two months, causing
the September 21, 2012 company to lose tens of thousands of
24dollars.REUTERS/Joe Penney 25. A worker fabricates a plastic bag
designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company factory in Koutiala,
Aug. 31, 2012. (Joe September 21, 201225 Penney/Reuters)# 26.
Workers push barrels of vegetable oil, produced with cotton seeds,
toward a truck at the Malian Animal FeedSeptember 21, 2012Company
factory in Koutiala, Aug. 31, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#26 27.
SeptemberAn employee of Canadian miner Iamgold watches a football
game after work in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe 21, 2012
27Penney/Reuters)# 28. A gold miner drives home on his motorcycle
after work in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#September
21, 2012 28 29. Niana and Dramane Diabate, children of gold miners,
filter water for household use in front of gold minersSeptember 21,
2012 29residences in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
30. Small-scale gold miner Bangale Sidibe, 29, poses for a picture
with his pickaxe before heading to work in Kalana, Aug.September
21, 2012 3026, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)# 31. Small-scale gold
miners gather in the morning before heading to work in Kalana, Aug.
26, 2012. (JoeSeptember 21, 2012 31 Penney/Reuters)# 32. Amadou
Dabo, a 46-year-old gold buyer, weighs gold he will buy from an
artisanal miner in Kalana, Aug. 25, 2012.September 21, 201232 (Joe
Penney/Reuters)# 33. Small-scale gold trader Amadou Dabo, 46,
displays his tools used to weigh and purchase gold, including
roughlyseven grams of gold he bought off of small-scale miners for
about $30 in Kalana, Aug. 25, 2012. (JoePenney/Reuters)#September
21, 2012 33 34. Gold miners residences in Kalana August 26, 2012.
(Joe Penney/Reuters)#September 21, 201234 35. September 21, 2012
20, poses for a picture at the cafe she manages, located across the
road from a joint Randgold- Awa Baba Dji,35 Iamgold mine in Kalana,
Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)# 36. September 21, 2012
Traditional mud-brick walls are seen during sunset in Djenne
September 2, 2012.36REUTERS/Joe Penney 37. A night club that was
closed by Mali Islamic militant group MUJWA, after they took over
the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 6, 2012. MUJWA, which is
allied to other al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups, has said it
intends to impose shariathroughout Mali. It had already carried out
corporal punishments in territory under its control, including
public floggings September 21, 201237of suspected adulterers. (Joe
Penney/Reuters)# 38. A man stands near the Tomb of Askia, which was
built in 1485 for the burial of Toure, the ancient king of
theSonghai Empire, in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 6,
2012. Islamists of the Ansar Dine rebel group,which in April seized
Malis north, have threatened to destroy the tomb of Askia along
with Tuareg separatists who have destroyed at least eight Timbuktu
mausoleums and several tombs, centuries-old shrines.
(AdamaSeptember 21, 2012 38Diarra/Reuters)# 39. A child is weighed
at a hospital in Gao in northeastern Mali, after beingadmitted for
malnutrition, Sept. 8, 2012. (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#September 21,
2012 39 40. Refugees from the Malian town of Hombori, which is now
under the control of Islamist forces, pose for a picture attheir
private accommodation in the West African countrys capital Bamako,
Sept. 8, 2012. After a coup earlier this year rebels took over the
entirety over northern Mali. The U.N. refugee agency says over
450,000 people have since fledSeptember 21, 201240their homes.
(Simon Akam/Reuters)# 41. Refugees from the Malian town of Gao,
which is now under the control of Islamist forces, pose at a
privateaccommodation in the West African countrys capital Bamako,
Sept. 8, 2012. After a coup earlier this year rebels took over the
entirety over northern Mali. The U.N. refugee agency says over
450,000 people have since fled their41 September 21, 2012 homes.
Picture taken September 8, 2012. (Simon Akam/Reuters)# 42. Malians
who fled the unrest in the northeastern city of Gao wait at a bus
station in Bamako to return to Goa, Sept. 3, 2012. Mali has been
mired in chaos since March when soldiers toppled the president,
leaving a power vacuum thatSeptember 21, 2012 Tuareg rebels from
the north to seize nearly two thirds of the country. (Adama
Diarra/Reuters)#enabled42 43. Veiled female students attend a
lesson at a classroom in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept.
5, 2012. Mali Islamic militant group the Movement for Unity and
Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), who exert control over Gao, have
allowed classes for female students to resume but order that women
wear veils and be separated from male students. 43September 21,
2012(AdamaDiarra/Reuters)# 44. Veiled female students attend a
lesson at a classroom in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept.
5, 2012.September 21, 2012 (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#44 45. A veiled
woman cleans a blackboard at a classroom in the northeastern Malian
city of Gao, Sept. 5, 2012.September 21, 201245(Adama
Diarra/Reuters)# 46. Veiled female students attend a lesson in
thenortheastern Malian city of Gao, September 5, 2012. Mali Islamic
militant group the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa
(MUJWA), who exert control over Gao, have allowed classes for
female students toresume but order that women wear veils and
beseparated from male students. (AdamaSeptember 21,
201246Diarra/Reuters)# 47. Artisanal gold miner, Hawa Siloung,and
her daughter, Sayo, watch a colleague pan for gold in Kalana, Aug.
26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)# September 21, 201247 48.
Small-scale gold miner Modibo "Fama" Kone, 57, stands in an area
where he is panning for gold in Kalana, Aug. 26,September 21, 2012
2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#48 49. Artisanal gold miners walk to
work carrying their tools on their heads at a small scale mine in
Kalana August 26,2012.September 21, 2012REUTERS/Joe Penney 49 50.
September 21, 2012 gold miners Fanta Tounkara (L) and Fanta Camara
pan for gold in Kalana August 25, 2012.Small-scale 50 REUTERS/Joe
Penney 51. An artisanal gold miner tosses a bucket of mudwater to
clear the way for work on a small-scale gold mine in Kalana, Aug.
September 21, 2012 51 26, 2012. Mali is the third biggest producer
of gold in Africa. (Joe Penney/Reuters) # 52. An artisanal gold
miner takes a rest at a small-scale gold mine in Kalana, Aug. 26,
2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#September 21, 201252 53. Artisanal gold
miner Sara Moulare (C), 29, and colleagues pan for gold in Kalana
August 26, 2012.September 21, 201253REUTERS/Joe Penney 54. An
artisanal gold miner peers into a small-scale mine where his
colleague is working in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012.September 21,
2012(Joe Penney/Reuters)# 54 55. AUTO An artisanal gold miner peers
up from a small-scale mine where he is working in Kalana August 26,
2012.September 21, 201255 REUTERS/Joe Penney 56. Bin tp PPS: A
small-scale gold mine is seen in Kalana, August 25,
2012.http://my.opera.com/bachkien REUTERS/Joe
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