Bamako Mali

Bamako Mali. HistoryGovernment and PoliticsEconomyDemographicsSociety and CultureInternational RoleReferencesThe fertile lands of the Bamako region have been inhabited for more than 150000 years Early kingdoms grew rich through trading gold ivory kola nuts and salt using trade routes crossing the Sahara into northern Africa and eventually to Europe By the eleventh century the Empire of Ghana (7501076) became the first dominant kingdom in the area and the city of Timbuktu became a commercial center with over 100000 inhabitants and a center for Islamiclearning Two universities were built as well as several mosques The Mali Empire (12351600) which included modern day Mali Senegal Gambia Guinea and Mauritania became rich trading cottonand salt The Songhai Empire (14641591) had a professional army a civil service and even subsidized doctors and religious leaders In the 16th century Berber invaders from Moroccodestroyed what remained of the kingdoms in Mali and tradersailors began to undermine transSaharan trade Bamako was founded in the seventeenth century by Seribadi Maliis a republic in which a president who is elected for a fiveyear term appoints the prime minister and chairs the Council of Ministers which adopts proposals for laws submitted to the National Assembly for approval The National Assembly is the sole legislative arm and consists of 147 members Mali is divided into eight administrative regions which are made up of districts These districts are composed of communes which contain villages Since decentralization plans began a total of 702 local municipal councils have been formed These are headed by elected mayors Mali is a source transit and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation Women and girls are trafficked for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation and boys for work in rice fields or gold mines and for begging Although the majority are sold within the country the victims are also sent to neighboring nations (Libya) and Europe Mali is among the poorest countries in the world with 65 percent of its land area desert or semidesert and with a highly unequal distribution of income About 10 percent of the population is nomadic and some 80 percent of the labor force is engaged in farming and fishing Industrial activity is concentrated on processing farm commodities Mali is heavily dependent on foreign aid and vulnerable to fluctuations in world prices for cotton its main export along with gold Bamako is the nation&#39s administrative center with a river port located in nearby Koulikoro and a major regional trade and conference center Manufactures at Bamako include textiles processed meat and metal goods There is commercial fishingon the Niger River Per capita GDP was US$1000 in 2007 with a rank of 163 on the international Monetary Fund list of 179 nations River transport is used extensively Cement and petroleum products are shipped down the river from the city Rice and peanuts are moved upstream t Bamako&#39s population was 1690471 in 2006 Rural migration from droughtstricken areas tripled the size of the city from 1960 to 1970 Bamako was listed in 2006 as the sixth fastest growing urban area on a list of 100 cities growing at a rate of 445 percent each year The ethic groups of Mali comprise Mande 50 percent (Bambara Malinke Soninke) Peul 17 percent Voltaic 12 percent Songhai six percent Tuareg and Moor 10 percent and others five percent While French is the official language 80 percent speak Bambara which belongs to a group of closelyrelated languages called Manding while numerous other African languages are spoken Ninety percent of the population are Muslim Christians make up one percent while the remaining nine percent follow indigenous beliefs Bamako is the location of several research institutes and four colleges Bamako is the center of the distinctive griot music The soulful singer Salif Keita and the late singerguitarist Ali Farka Touré sparked a boom in Malian music in the 1990s The country&#39s griot music with haunting melodies based on the pentatonic scale and its themes of shattered romance has similarities with American blues music Western artists including Robert Plant Ry Cooder Bonnie Raitt and the late John Lee Hookerhave visited Bamako to jam and record with the local musicians Bamako is known as Mali&#39s center of culture Singers and instrumentalists from the nation&#39s various tribes—the Sorhai of Timbuktu the Dogon cliff dwellers the Peuls of central Mali the Tuaregs of the Sahara the Malinkes from the border region south of Bamako and the Wassalous near the Ivory Coast—come together in Bamako Notable landmarks in Bamako include the National Library of Mali Tour BCEAO Bamako Grand Mosque Cathedral of Bamako and the King Fahd Bridge Attractions include the Mali Bamako has served as host city to several important conventions that resulted in policies or initiatives set to improve life in various respects for citizens of African nations Two of the most prominent resulted in what are known as the Bamako Initiative and the Bamako Convention It also hosts the largest annual charity event in Africa known as the BudapestBamako Rally City Mayors Statistics World&#39s fastest growing cities and urban areas from 2006 to 2020Retrieved June 26 2019Dulucq Sophie Bamako Encyclopedia of African History 122123 2005 OCLC 61749600Perinbam B Marie Identity ritual and the state in the Bamako Kafu and Mandehinterland [Sl] African Studies Association 1994 OCLC 122267480UNICEF The Bamako InitiativeRetrieved June 26 2019.

Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Mali including kidnaps There is a heightened risk of attack in Bamako Attacks could be indiscriminate and occur without warning.

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Bamako ( Bambara ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ Bàmakɔ̌ Fula ???????????????????????? Bamako) is the capital and largest city of Mali with a 2009 population of 1810366 and an estimated 2020 population of 271 million It is located on the Niger River near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country Cercle BamakoRegion Bamako Capital DistrictElevation 350 m (1150 ft)Country.

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About Bamako One of the fastest growing cities in the world Bamako sprawls across the flat plains to the north and south of the Niger River with the Presidential Palace overlooking from the northern escarpment The city is a major port home to Mali&#39s largest international airport and the DakarNiger Railway.