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Movement For Environmental Education And Sustainable Development
The Rally for Education about Sustainable Development (, REDD) is a political party in Mali. It contested the presidential election on 29 April 2007 with the candidate Sidibé Aminata Diallo, who took seventh place with 0.55% of the vote."Présidentielle au Mali: la Cour constitutionnelle valide la réélection de Touré" AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), May 12, 2007 . Diallo is the first woman to ever contest a presidential election in the country. The party contested the 2013 parliamentary elections, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The population of Mali is million. 67% of its population was estimated to be under the age of 25 in 2017. Its capital and largest city is Bamako. The sovereign state of Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara Desert. The country's southern part is in the Sudanian savanna, where the majority of inhabitants live, and both the Niger and Senegal rivers pass through. The country's economy centres on agriculture and mining. One of Mali's most prominent natural resources is gold, and the country is the third largest producer of gold on the African continent. It also exports salt. Present-day Mali was once part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malian Presidential Election, 2007
Presidential elections were held in Mali on 29 April 2007. Incumbent president Amadou Toumani Touré ran for re-election against seven other candidates and won in the first round with about 71% of the vote."Mali / Présidentielle: la Cour constitutionnelle valide la réélection de Touré" , AFP (Maliweb.net), 12 May 2007 . Background Nominations , the President of the National Assembly, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the |
Sidibé Aminata Diallo
Sidibé Aminata Diallo (born 1950) is a Malian academic and politician. Academia Diallo gained her doctorate in development and urban studies from the University of Toulouse in 1984. She is a member of the faculty of Economic Sciences and Management at the University of Bamako, where she specializes in land management.Almahady Cissé"A Presidential Election That Breaks With Tradition" Inter Press Service (allAfrica.com), 24 April 2007. Politics On 12 March 2007, Diallo declared her candidacy for the position of President. She was one of 8 candidates contesting the April 2007 presidential election. She was also the first female presidential candidate ever in Mali and was running as the candidate of the Movement for Environmental Education and Sustainable Development The Rally for Education about Sustainable Development (, REDD) is a political party in Mali. It contested the presidential election on 29 April 2007 with the candidate Sidibé Aminata Diallo, who took seventh place wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malian Parliamentary Election, 2013
Parliamentary elections were held in Mali on 24 November 2013. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's party, Rally for Mali, won 66 of the 147 seats in the National Assembly, with its allies winning an additional 49 seats, giving it a substantial majority. The Union for the Republic and Democracy, led by Soumaïla Cissé, won 17 seats, becoming the Opposition. The elections had originally been planned for 1 and 22 July 2012, but were postponed after the Tuareg Rebellion and the March 2012 coup d'état. A second round of voting was held on 15 December 2013. Background Following French intervention in the country's separatist Azawad region, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that the elections should continue as scheduled and that the number of French forces in the country would be halved. Interim Prime Minister Django Sissoko visited Gao in northern Mali for the first time since the French intervention and rebel takeover in April 2013. He announced that the elections would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Issues In Mali
Environmental issues in Mali include desertification, deforestation, soil erosion, drought, and inadequate supplies of potable water. Deforestation is an especially serious and growing problem. According to the Ministry of the Environment, Mali’s population consumes 6 million tons of wood per year for timber and fuel. To meet this demand, 4,000 square kilometers of tree cover are lost annually, virtually ensuring destruction of the country’s savanna woodlands. One of Mali's major environmental issues is desertification. Mali has been in a drought for decades now and it is really affecting the country. Soil erosion, deforestation, and loss of pasture land are all major problems in Mali. Mali also has a shortening water supply. To help sustain Mali's ever-growing problem the government has assigned 3.7 percent of Mali’s total land area protected. It has ratified international environmental agreements pertaining to biodiversity, climate change, desertification, endangered spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties In Mali
This article lists political parties in Mali. Mali has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. The parties Parliamentary parties *Hope 2002 (''Espoir 2002'') **Rally for Mali (''Rassemblement pour le Mali'') **National Congress for Democratic Initiative (''Congres Nationale pour la Initiative Démocratie'') **Patriotic Movement for Renewal (''Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau'') **Rally for Labour Democracy (''Rassemblement pour la Démocratie du Travail'') *Alliance for Democracy in Mali (''Alliance pour la Démocratie en Mali-Parti Pan-Africain pour la Liberté, la Solidarité et la Justice'') *Convergence for Alternance and Change (''Convergence pour l'Alternance et changement'') ** Party for National Renewal (''Parti pour la renaissance nationale'') ** Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally (''Union Soudanaise-Rassembleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
