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Ouélessébougou
Ouélessébougou is a town and rural commune in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 1,118 square kilometers and includes the town of Ouélessébougou and 44 villages.. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 50,056. The town lies 80 km south of Bamako Bamako is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country. Bamak ... on the Route Nationale 7. See also * List of cities in Mali References External links Official website of Ouélessébougou*. Communes of Koulikoro Region {{Koulikoro-geo-stub ...
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Niankoro Yeah Samake
Niankoro Yéah Samaké () (born 27 February 1969) is a social entrepreneur and politician from Ouélessébougou, Mali. Samaké served as the Malian Ambassador to India. He was nominated by the Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in May 2015 and he assumed the post in 2015. Samaké is the executive director of the Empower Mali Foundation, former mayor of Ouélessébougou, Vice President of Mali's League of Mayors, and was a candidate in the 2013 Malian presidential election and 2018 elections. Samaké ran as a candidate in the 2018 Malian presidential election, Malian Presidential elections on 2 July 2018. Early life and education The 8th of 18 children born to Tiecourafing Samaké who had three wives in a Muslim family, Niankoro Yéah Samaké was born in the small village of Ouélessébougou, where he and his family lived in such deep poverty that Samaké recalls how his mother would tie the stomachs of Samaké and his siblings to ease their hunger. Despite their material cir ...
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