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People walk past the Grand Mosque of Djenne, a UNESCO World-Heritage listed site, in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. Nearly
10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Mali's coup d'etat in
late March, after which Islamist rebels took control of the country's northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come
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to 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 visited
September 21, 2012 World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Mali's coup d'etat in late March less than 20
Djenne, a UNESCO 3
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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.
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5. • The crises in and around Mali are shaped by an intersection of trends: food
insecurity and desertification linked to climate change; an incomplete transition
to democracy and a growing population of young people with poor employment
prospects. With its government debilitated by a coup, the Malian political
system 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 of
a major food crisis. Mali matters for two reasons. First, the country is not the
isolated place of myth that the Timbuktu legend implies. Its political crisis is a
threat to stability in the region. Second, instability combined with the food crisis
have together had acute humanitarian consequences. Aid agencies are struggling
to meet basic needs. Mali's industries of gold and cotton are doing
comparatively well, mainly because they're located in the south where things are
relatively calm. Mali needs to fund its transition back to civilian rule through
elections and retake the northern desert. Stability in Mali, as the third biggest
producer in Africa, is important for the global gold market; the gold miners
operating in the country; and to a lesser extent, the cotton market.
• Paula Nelson ( 37 photos total) (www.boston.com)
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6. A girl stands in the doorway of her house in Djenne, Mali, September 1, 2012.
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7. A small-scale gold miner carrying her tools on her head poses for a picture before heading home after working in
Kalana, August 25, 2012. Gold mining in Mali has rebounded since the landlocked West African nation's coup d'etat in
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late 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 a
September 21, 2012 picture next to the company's stock of animal feed made from cotton grain, August 31, 2012.
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9. Radio DJ Boubacar "Bouki" Diarra poses for a picture in his studio in Bamako, September 6, 2012. Since Mali's coup
d'etat in late March, armed assailants thought to have links with the military have attacked numerous Malian
September 21, 2012 journalists.
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10. A street is seen through the window of a primary school in Djenne September 6, 2012.
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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.
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12. A pirogue captain plying the Niger river tributaries unloads passengers in Djenne, Mali August 31, 2012.
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13. A small-scale gold miner rests after a day of work panning for gold in Kalana August 25, 2012.
REUTERS/Joe Penney
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14. A boy rides a bicycle down a street in Djenne, September 2, 2012.
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15. A man in traditional dress walks past a woman cooking on market day in Djenne, Sept. 2, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters) #
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traditional 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)#
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18. Aboubakar Yaro, head of conservation at the Djenne Library of Manuscipts, holds an Islamic manuscript from the 15th
September 21, 2012 century in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
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A 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 Mali's coup d'etat in late March,
after which Islamist rebels took control of the country's northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne,
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20. September 21, 2012 A butcher chops meat at the central market of Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
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Cotton farmer Karim Traore, 29, surveys his cotton field outside Koutiala, Mali August 30, 2012. Traore says good rains
this year have boosted his crops, which he will sell to the Malian national cotton company CMDT after harvest in October.
Mali's cotton sector, which according to CMDT data directly employs four of Mali's 15 million people, has not been
directly effected by Mali's political and security crises. "My crops are doing well and I have not seen any negative effects
September 21, 2012 of the coup d'etat on my cotton," Traore said.
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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 feed
factories in Mali, has lost at least 2 billion francs CFA (US $4m) since the coup d'etat, Daouda Toure, the company's
managing 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, 2012 the Islamist takeover, 22 said.
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23. Workers shovel cotton seeds onto a conveyor belt in the ground at the Malian Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala,
September 21, 2012 Aug. 31, 2012.(Joe Penney/Reuters)#
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24. A worker fabricates a plastic bag designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company in Koutiala, Mali August 31, 2012.
After Mali's military coup d'etat in late March an energy crisis forced the factory to close for two months, causing the
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25. A worker fabricates a plastic bag designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company factory in Koutiala, Aug. 31, 2012. (Joe
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26. Workers push barrels of vegetable oil, produced with cotton seeds, toward a truck at the Malian Animal Feed
September 21, 2012 Company factory in Koutiala, Aug. 31, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
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27. SeptemberAn employee of Canadian miner Iamgold watches a football game after work in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe
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Penney/Reuters)#
28. A gold miner drives home on his motorcycle after work in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
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29. Niana and Dramane Diabate, children of gold miners, filter water for household use in front of gold miners'
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residences 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.
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26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
31. Small-scale gold miners gather in the morning before heading to work in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe
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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.
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(Joe Penney/Reuters)#
33. Small-scale gold trader Amadou Dabo, 46, displays his tools used to weigh and purchase gold, including roughly
seven grams of gold he bought off of small-scale miners for about $30 in Kalana, Aug. 25, 2012. (Joe
Penney/Reuters)#
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34. Gold miners' residences in Kalana August 26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#
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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.
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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 sharia
throughout Mali. It had already carried out corporal punishments in territory under its control, including public floggings
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of 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 the
Songhai Empire, in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 6, 2012. Islamists of the Ansar Dine rebel group,
which in April seized Mali's 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. (Adama
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Diarra/Reuters)#
39. A child is weighed at a hospital in Gao in northeastern Mali, after being
admitted for malnutrition, Sept. 8, 2012. (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#
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40. Refugees from the Malian town of Hombori, which is now under the control of Islamist forces, pose for a picture at
their private accommodation in the West African country's 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
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their homes. (Simon Akam/Reuters)#
41. Refugees from the Malian town of Gao, which is now under the control of Islamist forces, pose at a private
accommodation in the West African country's 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 that
September 21, 2012 Tuareg rebels from the north to seize nearly two thirds of the country. (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#
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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. 43
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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)#
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45. A veiled woman cleans a blackboard at a classroom in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 5, 2012.
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(Adama Diarra/Reuters)#
46. Veiled female students attend a lesson in the
northeastern 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 to
resume but order that women wear veils and be
separated from male students. (Adama
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Diarra/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)#
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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)#
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49. Artisanal gold miners walk to work carrying their tools on their heads at a small scale mine in Kalana August 26,
2012.
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50. September 21, 2012 gold miners Fanta Tounkara (L) and Fanta Camara pan for gold in Kalana August 25, 2012.
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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.
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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)#
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53. Artisanal gold miner Sara Moulare (C), 29, and colleagues pan for gold in Kalana August 26, 2012.
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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)#
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An artisanal gold miner peers up from a small-scale mine where he is working in Kalana August 26, 2012.
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56. Biên tập PPS: A small-scale gold mine is seen in Kalana, August 25, 2012.
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