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Laura Bush Winds Up Visit to Four Countries
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 30, 2007
inding up an eventful trip to Africa, U.S. first lady Laura Bush voiced support and promised more aid for nations struggling with HIV/AIDS and malaria, and to those striving to raise literacy levels. She completed her five-day tour in Mali June 29, after visits to Senegal, Mozambique and ... more
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Laura Bush Visits Mali As Part of Tour
Topix - Saturday, June 30, 2007
p> Laura Bush wrapped up a tour of Africa on Friday by visiting a school and sitting in on a math class in Mali, saying she was impressed by education efforts in the country. The larger focus of the first lady's tour this week was AIDS, and the former... more
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General strike grips Mali
Topix - Friday, June 29, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Today the strike is being followed everywhere, despite the multiple attempts by the state to break it" The last day of a 48-hour general strike called by Mali's biggest labour union was largely followed on Wednesday, sending a warning signal to political leaders ahead of legislative... more
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Habib Koite: Mixing tradition, modernity
Topix - Thursday, June 28, 2007
p> Malian superstar Habib Koite was born to parents from the Griot tradition of West African praise singing. via Aspen Times ... more
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Journalists, Teacher Sentenced for School Essay
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
ive journalists and a 10th grade teacher have been jailed in Mali for "offending the head of state" over a story on a high school essay assignment about an imaginary presidential sex scandal, report the Network of African Freedom of Expression Organisations (NAFEO), an initiative of IFEX members, and other... more
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Court Imposes Prison Sentences for Newspaper Report On School Essay That Mocked Imaginary President
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
eporters Without Borders voiced disappointment at the prison sentences imposed on 26 June 2007 on five journalists and a school teacher on charges of insulting President Amadou Toumani Touré, either directly or as accomplices, in connection with a school essay about an imaginary president's ... more
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In Mali, high school essay assignment lands journalist in prison
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We call on the authorities to immediately drop these charges and release both Diarra and the teacher from prison." A state prosecutor in Mali jailed a journalist for an article about a high school essay assignment in which the students were asked to write about a... more
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Lens on Life: From Bamako to San Francisco
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p> Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission , S.F. Details: Through Sept. 23 Adults $10, Students $5; call 358-7200 or visit www.moadsf.org Subject : Feinstein on Lens of Life "Africa is not a lost continent," ... via SF Weekly ... more
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West African Women Politicians Struggle to Get Elected
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"But it is really good in our society for a woman to be candidate. I am really proud of her." Watch West African Women report / Real broadband - download Watch West African Women report / Real broadband Watch West African Women report / Real dialup... more
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Essay 'insults' Mali's president
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The president should show that Malian democracy allows teachers and journalists to be free with humour and even insolence." President Toure has been urged to free those detained Journalists in Mali have held a protest march after six people were arrested over an article about a... more
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CPJ News Alert 2007
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We call on the authorities to release the five journalists immediately and drop all charges against them." Authorities in the capital Bamako have jailed five journalists in a week-the first arrests in the country since 2003 -in the aftermath of an article about a high school... more
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Journalists jailed in Mali for reporting on high school assignment
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This situation is so outrageous that it would be laughable if ... people were not in jail" BAMAKO, Mali: Five journalists and a 10th grade literature teacher have been jailed in Mali for reporting on a high school essay assignment about an imaginary presidential sex scandal.... more
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Malian Authorities Fail to See Humor in Satirical Essay, Jail Journalists
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"So we have no indication whatsoever that there was a political order." Listen to Schwarz report Activists in Mali are protesting the arrest of several newspaper directors, a journalist and a high school teacher for printing a satirical essay about the sexual exploits of a ...... more
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In the Mouth of the Crocodile
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p> The label "world music" has always bothered me. It smacks of Western arrogance: We have rock, pop, country, classical, blues, punk, disco, new wave, techno and sub-genre after mind-fatiguing sub-genre. Your ... via Aspen Daily News ... more
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Lawyers boycott Mali trial
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We want to show by our absence that the freedom of the press is being violated in Mali" Defence lawyers said they were boycotting the trial of five Malian journalists and a teacher charged with insulting President Amadou Toumani Toure. via Sunday Times ... more
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'Insult Essay' Writers are Guilty
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The result of a prosecutor's absurd zeal, these two arrests are worthy of another age and are clearly an abuse of authority" President Toure was hailed after ending military dictatorship. Five journalists and a teacher have been found guilty of insulting Mali's president over a school... more
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U.S. First Lady to Tour 4 Countries
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 23, 2007
irst lady Laura Bush embarks on her third Africa tour June 25, during which she will visit U.S.-funded HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention and treatment projects. She also will highlight education and women's empowerment during her five-day trip to Senegal, Mozambique, Zambia and ... more
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Journalist Assaulted By Security Forces for Protesting Teacher's Imprisonment
allAfrica.com - Friday, June 22, 2007
he International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the court in Mali's capital city of Bamako to immediately release from jail and drop charges against four editors, a journalist and a teacher for "offence against the head of state" after the publication of an article about a school assignment... more
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Journalists, Teacher Jailed Over Essay Mocking Imaginary President
allAfrica.com - Friday, June 22, 2007
eporters Without Borders has called for the release of a secondary school teacher and a total of five journalists who have been arrested over an article about a school essay on the comical indiscretions of an imaginary ... more
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Farmers Squeezed By Subsidies, Privatisation
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 21, 2007
n the eve of a high level conference focused on the development aspects of cotton at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), an international agency Oxfam warned that poor cotton farmers in West Africa face new pressures from low commodity prices and from privatisation policies led by the World ... more
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