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Africa: Shrouded in Secrecy, One of Africa's Biggest Land Deals Stalls
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 18 May 2015
Malian farmer Balima Coulibaly and his fellow villagers watched with dread as 100,000 hectares of fertile land they have farmed for generations were handed to Libyan investors with… Read more »
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Mali: How One Town Is Trying to Fight Against Hunger
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 14 May 2015
Dust blows through the dry fields of Djimebougou village of central Mali as a dozen men, some in ripped jeans and others in traditional robes, dig into hard-packed sand to… Read more »
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Mali: Drought, Expanding Deserts and 'Food for Jihad' Drive Conflict
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 27 April 2015
Life has never been easy in Moussa Majga's corner of northern Mali, a desert region of leafless trees, mud huts and roaming gunmen. Read more »
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Mali: FAO and Government Team Up to Restore Food Security in Northern Mali
FAO, 1 April 2015
33,000 families to benefit from new agricultural production rehabilitation programme - World Bank supporting activities Read more »
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Mali: As Rains Worsen, 'Hunger Season' Fuels Deforestation
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 September 2014
For Kaidia Samake and her 14 family members, what the people of Mali call the "hunger season" may not end in October, when the first harvests are due. Read more »