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Background: The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 1960 as the Mali Federation. When Senegal withdrew after only a few months, what formerly made up the Sudanese Republic was renamed Mali. Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in 1991 with a transitional government and in 1992 when Mali's first democratic presidential election was held. After his reelection in 1997, President Alpha KONARE continued to push through political and economic reforms and to fight corruption. In keeping with Mali's two-term constitutional limit, he stepped down in 2002 and was succeeded by Amadou TOURE.

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By Bjorndahl
August 7th 2009

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Dogon Country

Roughly what is in my journal July 29 Road To Mopti Wow, met up with Maarte. Saw him walk by my restaurant shortly after writing my last joural entry. We went to the National Museum in Bamako but not inside because the ticket guy wouldnt give us change. I showed him the markets and in general just did some catching up. He was sick also ad had only started to recover. I feel almost completely recovered and decided to head to Mopti this morning. When I am there I will decide what to do next. I got to the bus station [View Full Entry]

By Bjorndahl
August 5th 2009

Mopti is the Center of ... Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Washing Clothes in Mopti

tourism in Mali, this is a good and bad thing. I have had a long break from this thing for multiple reasons. The main one being I have been very busy. I spent 4 days hiking in Dogon Country, which was amazing, could be heaven on earth. Also spent two days on a crappy bus for what was supposed to be a 7 hour bus ride. And today I spent all day in Djenne where the world famous Great Mosque (made of mud) is. Soon I get busy again but I have decided that tomorrow will be a big blog update [View Full Entry]

By eddy15
July 6th 2009

Back in Mopti! Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Back in Mopti after a five day hike through Dogon Country with Anil and our guide Ibrahim! 1 July So this lazy day was spent in the pool talking to unattractive British girls and getting soaked in the rain. Anil and I met Ibrahim in the evening. We finalised our plan. We’ll be traveling with two French girls. Sweet! Right? 2 July When we got to Bandingara there was no sign of the French girls. We leave almost immediately for Douloo (odd?). Apparently the two girls are traveling around West Africa on one 125 cc Honda Motorcycle (very odd?). By this [View Full Entry]

By eddy15
June 30th 2009

In Mopti Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Well another night out with Yousouf and Arnaud last night. Met a Colonel in the Malian Army who seemed to like me and hooked me up with contacts in Timbuktu. Also he’s a good contact to have. Yousouf finally let me pay for a round (not that I was trying too hard to) and also gave me a CD. An early rise, a bit rough, and I was on the bus all day. I actually met Anil on the bus, which was good so we went to a better hotel than we’d planned in Mopti. Many annoying “guides”, but I can’t [View Full Entry]

By johnnyrivers
April 27th 2009

The Mali Finale! part 3- Mopti Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Playin' the Waitin' Game

The road to Mopti was...eternal? Yeah, that's a good word for it! Long and hot, dry and dusty. We soon found that the further north you go, the more expensive water got...which is kind of a "no duh" statement since we're traveling into the Sahara desert...hmmmm... At any rate, crossing the border was a pain, not because of any large amounts of paperwork, but because of the excessively spread out process of starting and stopping. We would drive for twenty minutes, and then everyone would pile out of the tro so we could have one guy check out passports. Then we [View Full Entry]

By philannie
April 19th 2009

Mali- Mud mosque country Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Markets on the way to Djenne

After 3 days of pleasant sightseeing in Bamako-all the old sights but many new,we moved on. We were luck as well with visas. After 4 hours of searching Annie and I found the Niger Consulate and obtained a visa in less than a day. We followed with a Nigerian visa in 2 days. All in all a successful time. After 1 night bush camping we reached Djenne with its world famous mud mosque. Most towns in Mali have mud mosques but this is the largest mud structure in the worls. I had wanted to see this for 25 years.We now are [View Full Entry]

By Roodle
December 28th 2008

in mali Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Helloooo ya ya ya I suck at writing blogs, whatevs. Im just going to apologize now for any grammatical errors cause I dont know how to work these dang french keyboards here in mali1 But I will try my best.Sooo we (meaning hayley and i) to a nice, clean, fairly cheap place in mopti (a bigger town). There are maaany stories but i must be quick. I will tell u my 2 favs thus far. So, we went through Ghana, to reach Bobo; which is in Burkina Faso. A good fried of mine named Shika is a traditional Burkina musicia but [View Full Entry]

By petcul
November 23rd 2008

Travels with a Dakar Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

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Monday 10 November In the cool of the morning you dig four holes in the earth, put in your poles, tie up an awning, put up your table and your are ready for business. Even at 0700 the Monday market in front of the Djenne mosque is alive with trucks, traders, tourists and very worried sheep. Armed with the camera I shoot anything that moves. I'll never have the time to process a fraction of these. J-M is restless. He has a bad feeling about the place and I sympathise. There is the Djenne of the local population who come to [View Full Entry]

By petcul
November 21st 2008

Travels with a Dakar Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

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Saturday 08th November After a coffee and an indifferent bun at the overpriced patisserie we leave Kayes. The dust is just as bad in the morning as it is in the evening. We cross the Senegal river which is alive with activity. People washing, small piroques getting ready for the day, it seems like all human life is there. If it's not on the river it's on the bridge which starts with a sand trap. The road is good. Too good in the sense that our day is going to be a long one, 400 miles, and there is little [View Full Entry]

By nat_vallee
January 18th 2008

Mali trip part 2: New Year's and Mopti Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Hotel room Bandiagara

So… here it goes and continues… about a month later! Sorry.. I’m trying to catch up on the lack of communication here! So.. after the whole Dogon Country thing.. we decided to take a relaxing day off in Bandiagara at a hotel a bit out of town. We had the biggest pile of laundry ever to wash! Good thing for us.. we met a Ghanian Burkinabe woman.. who was all excited to meet us and did it for us! Hurray! The room was nice.. and the meals were good. That night.. we had African tea with the manager of the hotel [View Full Entry]

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