<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/northafrica/mali/post?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Placing a Value on School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49976-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49976-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As Mira Fleming, an eighth-grader at Newport Mill Middle School, carried her heavy load of textbooks each day around the Kensington campus, she never really considered how lucky she was.]]></description><author> Lori Aratani</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tomes of Timbuktu]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45889-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45889-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A dusty haze mutes the horizon in Timbuktu during the dry season, so on this mid-December evening the sun simply fades away without setting. Dusk settles upon the wide, sandy streets and mud-bricked alleys, and the city, without streetlights, descends into the darkness of the desert. Silhouettes drift past lamp-lit windows, and the fires of street-side clay ovens send shadows dancing up the walls. Children materialize from the darkness, run up and clasp the hands of strangers, then disappear. The sky is soon dense with stars, and meteorites streak by so often and seemingly so close that I actually swing my head when one appears to shoot like a bottle rocket toward the street below.]]></description><author> Alan Huffman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Mali, Quietude Amid the Cacophony]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54853-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54853-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAMAKO, Mali -- In  the heart of this city of 1 million inhabitants, the ancient fetish market occupies a strategic position. It sits directly between the city's largest mosque, shrine for a population that is 90 percent Muslim, and the National Assembly, home of Mali's fragile democracy.]]></description><author> Jonathan Miller</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Longer Just Nordic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52672-2004Oct21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52672-2004Oct21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Across Europe, societies that were once solidly white and Christian are being recast in a multicultural light.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 More Nations Report Polio Cases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29996-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29996-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cases of polio have been found in Mali and Guinea, bringing to 12 the number of African countries recently reinfected by an ongoing polio epidemic in Nigeria.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Djembe Drums, Going for a Song]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10774-2003Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10774-2003Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[About a month ago, Vanessa Adams was sitting in a restaurant in Bamako, the capital of the West African nation of Mali, when a man called over from the next table and asked a question: "What's new with the products?"]]></description><author> John F. Kelly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slain Md. Teen From Mali Remembered As 'Spirited']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15977-2003Sep15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15977-2003Sep15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["I like watch TV in my free time," Rokiatou Ba had written with pastel milky pens on black paper. "My favorite show is 'Friends.' I like Montgomery Blair High School. It's nice to meet you."]]></description><author> Linda Perlstein  and Fredrick Kunkle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[KanKouran at 20: Bounding Into the Spotlight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8859-2003Aug31.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8859-2003Aug31.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Drums speak. So when their thunder erupted from behind the stage at Howard University's Cramton Auditorium Saturday night, the crowd -- still filtering into their seats -- took notice. What they heard was the baak, the traditional African drum call that marks the beginning of a celebration and blesses -- in staccato language -- ancestors, dancers, drummers and the audience.]]></description><author> Lisa Traiger</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Wellspring of Manuscripts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28888-2003Jun24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28888-2003Jun24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A small sample of texts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, a private holding of some 5,000 ancient manuscripts in Timbuktu, is on view at the Library of Congress. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Philip Kennicott</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Philip Kennicott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Road to Timbuktu]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16564-2003Jun20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16564-2003Jun20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I nearly killed a man to reach Timbuktu, but only after he made me dig our truck out of the sand with a stolen butter knife. Not that getting home was much easier. Once we finally made it to the fabled city, I left my driver tethered to an intravenous drip at a local hospital. Two days later, I had to hitch a ride on the cockpit floor of an overloaded Russian turboprop for the first leg of my trip back to New York.]]></description><author> Christopher Reardon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Sinking Feeling]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17932-2003Jun20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17932-2003Jun20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When you build a mud house in Timbuktu, the mortar does not turn to soup at midday when the sky opens up. It does, however, when you try to construct one in the middle of Washington in June 2003. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Rebecca Dana</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rebecca Dana</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Jobs and a Sense of Hope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37511-2002Dec10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37511-2002Dec10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Adama Camara, a Malian immigrant, says cleaning airport bathrooms at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport is preferable to mining diamonds in Sierra Leone.]]></description><author> Anne Hull</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SOL Test Puts Mali on Map]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24041-2002May28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24041-2002May28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Virginia Board of Education has added Mali, one of several powerful empires that once held sway in West Africa, to its mandated third-grade Standards of Learning curriculum.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mali Youth's Harsh Reality]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17980-2001Oct6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17980-2001Oct6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Child labor in the West African nation is a complex issue tied more to the region's endemic poverty than to an organized slave trade.]]></description><author> Douglas Farah</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mali's Muslim Clerics Send Troubling Message]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47163-2001Sep29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47163-2001Sep29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Every Friday in mosques across this largely desert country, Muslim leaders warn the faithful to resist Western efforts to undermine the nation's culture, meddle in its political affairs and replace Islam with Judeo-Christian values. The imams attack the president and the political elite for their lack of religious devotion and vow to play a pivotal role in next year's elections by endorsing a fundamentalist Muslim candidate.]]></description><author> Douglas Farah</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powell Rebukes Mugabe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A79766-2001May25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A79766-2001May25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Colin L. Powell today delivered the U.S. government's strongest criticism yet of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.]]></description><author> Jon Jeter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Africa, Secretary as Symbol]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A66915-2001May23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A66915-2001May23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Africans display a profound ambivalence about Secretary of State Colin Powell, who arrived in Mali today to begin a four-nation tour of the continent. And Powell's comments on arrival only fed that ambivalence.]]></description><author> Jon Jeter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58174-2001May21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58174-2001May21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrats Sue for Census Data Sixteen Democrats on the House Government Reform Committee yesterday sued Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans in federal court in California to force disclosure of adjusted data from the 2000 Census.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing Mali]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45559-2001May18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45559-2001May18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There had been some suggestion  that I might be met at Mali's Bamako-Senou airport, but I had slim hopes and was bracing for another solitary attack on another Third World city, this time in the fourth-poorest country in the world.]]></description><author> John Auchard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreigners Flock to Leave Ivory Coast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11654-2000Oct4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11654-2000Oct4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/mali/post</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:44:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The most visible sign of the growing tension and fear in Ivory Coast is the crowd of desperate foreigners crammed with bundles of possessions into the small station where buses depart for the northern borders with Burkina Faso and Mali.]]></description><author> Douglas Farah</author></item></channel></rss>