Catastrophic flooding in Bamako on August 5th, 2021
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Since 2016, the growing insecurity in Central Mali has forced thousands of people to seek refuge in makeshift camps in the cities, leaving everything behind.
One such refugee camp sprung up on a stretch of vacant land in the Faladiè neighborhood of Bamako, Mali’s capital city, located between a park of livestock pens and an abandoned garbage dump. This site now constitutes the largest informal refugee camp in Bamako. In April 2020, a large section of the camp was ravaged by fire. When the ashes cooled, most residents soon moved back, with nowhere else to go.
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UNICEF's message on protecting girls against Gender Based Violence (GBV) is this: we must teach boys to respect girls. Watch UNICEF’s message on BBC. Plus, new initiative in support of girls launched in Segou, Mali together with sister cities Richmond, Virginia and Angoulême, France.
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COVID has just taken an old friend, Soumaïla Cissé who was the Official Leader of the Opposition in Mali and aged 71, who died December 15th 2020 from the effects of COVID-19.
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