Podcasts about northern mali

Known as the ‘pearl of the desert', Timbuktu was a spiritual and intellectual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries - the home of mosques and libraries and commerce. For years its treasures drew tens of thousands of tourists each year. But now it's a city under siege. Attacks on civilians have spiked. An Al Qaeda affiliated group announced a blockade of the city - and in September, a rocket attack on a passenger boat led to dozens of deaths and hundreds injured. This led to the cancellation of the boat service - previously seen as the only ‘safe' form of travel in and out of Timbuktu. So what has caused this change? For Africa Daily Alan Kasujja speaks an analyst who monitors the levels of violence – and to a man who grew up in the city – but didn't want to be named for fear of repercussions from the military government.

The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed this week s to admit six new countries. The countries Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - are set to join in January. Can this counter Western dominance? As thousands of UN troops speed up their pull out of Mali, despite a deteriorating security situation. We talk to BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani the first journalist to travel to Northern Mali since French forces ended their military operation there two years ago Plus why are more airlines adopting the use of sustainable aviation fuel? We hear from an expert based in Kenya

Democracy in Question? is brought to you by:• Central European University: CEU• The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD• The Podcast Company: Novel Follow us on social media!• Central European University: @CEU• Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: @AHDCentreSubscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review and sharing our podcast in your networks!  DiQ S6 EP4Ken Opalo on the Prospects of Democracy in AfricaGlossaryWhat is the African Union?(31:02 or p.8 in the transcript)African Union (AU), formerly (1963–2002) Organization of African Unity, is an intergovernmental organization, established in 2002, to promote unity and solidarity of African states, to spur economic development, and to promote international cooperation. The African Union (AU) replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The AU's headquarters are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The OAU was established on May 25, 1963, and its activities included diplomacy (especially in support of African liberation movements), mediation of boundary conflicts and regional and civil wars, and research in economics and communications. The OAU maintained the “Africa group” at the United Nations (UN) through which many of its efforts at international coordination were channeled. The OAU was instrumental in bringing about the joint cooperation of African states in the work of the Group of 77, which acts as a caucus of developing nations within the UN Conference on Trade and Development. The principal organ of the OAU was the annual assembly of heads of state and government. In 2000, in a move spearheaded by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, it was proposed that the OAU be replaced by a new body, the African Union. The African Union was to be more economic in nature, similar to the European Union, and would contain a central bank, a court of justice, and an all-Africa parliament. A Constitutive Act, which provided for the establishment of the African Union, was ratified by two-thirds of the OAU's members and came into force on May 26, 2001. After a transition period, the African Union replaced the OAU in July 2002. In 2004 the AU's Pan-African Parliament was inaugurated, and the organization agreed to create a peacekeeping force, the African Standby Force, of about 15,000 soldiers. sourceWhat is the Sahel Crisis?(33:18 or p.9 in the transcript)The central Sahel region, which includes the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, is facing one of the fastest growing displacement crises in the world. More than 2.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes and at least 13.4 million are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. People began fleeing the central Sahel region in 2011 after an outbreak of violence in Northern Mali. Poverty, unemployment, and the presence of armed groups in rural areas of Northern Mali all contributed to an increase in forced displacement. Armed groups have rapidly expanded, spreading violence to central parts of the country and to neighboring countries, such as Burkina Faso and Niger. As a result of the conflict, millions of families have been displaced across the region, including 650,000 people uprooted in 2019 alone. Approximately 1.8 million people have been internally displaced. In Burkina Faso, at least 1 million people – approximately 5 percent of the country's population- have fled violence inside the country in the past year, many seeking refuge in areas that are also affected by violence and poverty. Armed conflict, economic insecurity, and the adverse effects of climate change are some of the biggest challenges affecting the region. Indiscriminate attacks against civilians and public infrastructure – including schools and health facilities – have threatened the lives of millions of people and their livelihoods. The conflict has claimed more than 6,500 lives in the last year and threatens to leave at least 7.4 million people suffering from acute malnutrition. source

On Mali and the Sahel.   French president Emmanuel Macron declared the end of Opération Barkhane on 9 November 2022, bringing to an end to nearly 10 years of French military intervention in Mali. But what is the legacy of the French Forever War in the Sahel, and what happens next?   Sahel expert Yvan Guichaou joins us to talk about French defeat in the war on terror, the continued French military presence in the region, the growing extent of jihadi power, as well as the crisis of the post-colonial state in Africa and the new geo-politics of Franco-Russian competition in the region. How do these various political forces intersect with the political economy of aid and smuggling networks?   [Part 2 is available to subscribers at patreon.com/bungacast]   Readings: Norms, non-combatants' agency and restraint in Jihadi violence in Northern Mali, Yvan Guichaoua and Ferdaous Bouhlel, International Interactions The bitter harvest of French interventionism in the Sahel, Yvan Guichaoua, International Affairs Music: Nous Non Plus / Bunga Bunga / courtesy of Sugaroo!

Jacinda Townsend grew up in Southcentral Kentucky and left for Harvard at the age of sixteen. It was there that she took her first creative writing classes; while at Duke Law School, she cross-registered in the English department, where she took her next few formative writing workshops. After four years of being first a broadcast journalist and then an antitrust lawyer in New York City, Jacinda went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received her MFA before going on to spend a year as a Fulbright fellow to Côte d'Ivoire. During her Fulbright year, on a layover in Morocco, Jacinda discovered the city of Marrakech and fell in love. Later that same year, on a trip to Northern Mali, she also first witnessed modern-day slavery: that incident inspired the research that eventually took her to Mauritania, where she met with escaped slaves and anti-slavery activists and began the work that would become her newly published novel, Mother Country (Graywolf, 2022).  Mother Country is told in the voices of an American woman struggling with infertility who kidnaps a young Moroccan girl, and the young mother, escaped from Mauritanian slavery, who loses her. Jacinda recently finished work on a third novel, James Loves Ruth. James Loves Ruth is told in the voices of Ruth Hurley, who changed her identity and moved across the country after her father was killed by police in the late eighties, and James Hurley, her soon-to-be-ex-husband, who spends the novel uncovering the truth about his wife. Excerpts from the novel have appeared in Auburn Avenue, Copper Nickel, and Transition. Jacinda has taught in MFA programs across the country, and is mom to two magnificent children who amaze her daily. Jacinda is also a part of the Miami Book Fair in November. Visit their website for details. 

Jacinda Townsend, author of the novel Mother Country (Graywolf), and Barbara DeMarco-Barrett discuss her new book and the setting of Morocco, alternating POVs, slavery, writing with the senses, and more. During her Fulbright year, on a layover in Morocco, Jacinda discovered the city of Marrakech and fell in love. Later that same year, on a trip to Northern Mali, she also first witnessed modern-day slavery: that incident inspired the research that eventually took her to Mauritania, where she met with escaped slaves and anti-slavery activists and began the work that would become her newly published novel, Mother Country (Graywolf, 2022).  Mother Country is told in the voices of an American woman struggling with infertility who kidnaps a young Moroccan girl, and the young mother, escaped from Mauritanian slavery, who loses her. Jacinda is also the author of Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950's Eastern Kentucky and is a love letter to a Black community that has all but disappeared. Saint Monkey won the 2015 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best fiction written by a woman and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for that year's best historical fiction. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.Download audio.  (Recorded via Zoom on July 28, 2022) Music and sound design by Travis Barrett Check out our Patreon page! Barbara DeMarco-Barrett: www.penonfire.com Marrie Stone: www.marriestone.com Travis Barrett: https://travisbarrett.mykajabi.com

Is there peace to keep in Mali? This episode looks at the complex political, economic and security landscape in Mali and the Sahel region as a whole. What do Canada’s 250 troops contribute to the peacekeeping mission? Is it enough? Is the Canadian government reflecting enough on the actions and potential impact Canadian mining companies have there? Three junior scholars — all experts on various Africa-related topics — join Bessma Momani to talk about the angles less heard when it comes to West Africa (including the cheerier topic of African cinema!). Our host Bessma Momani is professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She’s also a non-resident senior fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. and a Fulbright Scholar. She has been non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and a 2015 Fellow at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She’s a frequent analyst and expert on international affairs in Canadian and global media. This week's guests Ousmane Aly Diallo is a Ph.D. candidate and a doctoral fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. His dissertation thesis focuses on the crisis in Mali (2012-) and its impact on security governance in West Africa and the understanding of ‘regions’ by security actors. Ousmane is also part of a multi-year research project on the influence of the informal economy on the patterns of political violence, and in the behaviours of non-state armed groups in Northern Mali. Nadège Compaoré is a Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo. Prior to BSIA, she was a Research Analyst at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her work lies at the intersection of international relations, global political economy and international law scholarships, which guide her analysis of global and regional governance measures targeting the oil, gas and mining industries in Africa. Abdiasis Issa is a Ph.D. candidate, Global Governance program, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. Abdi specializes in international security, regionalism and African development. Canada and The World is produced and edited by Matthew Markudis.

explmore presents a reading from Strangers Like Angels, With a Devil or Two to Boot, by Alec and Jan Forman. Alec and Jan narrate Chapter 46, Onwards We Travel. Twelve years since their epic overland adventure, Alec and Jan's travels continue, as they explore more of Northern Mali as a family of six.

Hoy comenzamos de nuevo en la isla de La Reunión, con ese latido de libertad que estuvo una vez perseguido: la música maloya. Seguimos, tras hacer escala en Bamako, Nápoles y en una Francia cosmopolita, hacia territorio en guerra, con músicas que resisten contra el desastre de la violencia y la prohibición de los fanáticos religiosos de mente abducida. Bailamos ritmos de esperanza en Irak y en Siria, y escuchamos a los músicos del norte de Mali advirtiendo que, para acabar con la música, tendrán que acabar con ellos antes. We start again in the Réunion Island, with that freedom pulse that was once forbidden: maloya music. After some stopovers in Bamako, Napoli and a cosmopolitan France, we enter into war zones, with music that resists against the disaster of violence and the ban by the abduced-minded religious fanatics. We dance rhythms of hope in Iraq and Syria and we listen to the musicians from Northern Mali saying that, if they want to kill the music, they will have to kill them first. Mélanz Nasyon - Bato zalman - Fyèr maloyèr Stéphane Grondin - Banalé - Maloyattitude Invisible System in Mali - Ebah (Proud mothers) - Bamako nommos sessions volumen 1 Lalala Napoli - Bluzz - Disperato Alif - Dans mes rêves - Alif Rahim AlHaj - Voices to remember - Letters from Iraq Omar Souleyman - Ya bnayya - To Syria, with love Fadimata Walett Oumar - Children's song - They will have to kill us first: Malian music in exile [VA] [BSO/OSB] Khaira Arby - Amalgam - They will have to kill us first: Malian music in exile [VA] [BSO/OSB] Songhoy Blues - Baba hou - They will have to kill us first: Malian music in exile [VA] [BSO/OSB] Abdallah Ag Alhousseini - Asswl - They will have to kill us first: Malian music in exile [VA] [BSO/OSB] Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Machengoidi - They will have to kill us first: Malian music in exile [VA] [BSO/OSB]

In Episode #3, Newman Kante tell us about his home village in Northern Mali, his challenges adjusting to a country with "closed doors" and his secret to flashing a great smile. Hint: listening to Newman in this episode is really all you'll need :)

The fabled city of Timbuktu has recently been a center of conflict between the French military and Islamic militants. Complicating the clash are tensions within Mali among the country's ethnic groups. In a live "Office Hours" webcast interview Feb. 8, Duke professor Bruce Hall explains some of the historical and cultural context of the conflict. Watch the interview live on this webpage or on Duke Today. Post a question for Hall on Twitter using @DukeOfficeHours or the Duke Office Hours Facebook page. "There is nothing 'less racial' about the situation in Northern Mali because of a history of 'mixing' than anywhere else," Hall told the International Business Times in an article published last week. "Race is not about the biology; it is about the ideas and practices that link biological traits to value which are claimed to be transmissible inter-generationally. "In fact, in the absence of a strong international security presence, it seems very likely to me that racialized violence will occur on a much greater scale than it has so far," he said. Joining Hall is Duke senior Jennifer Denike, who completed a study abroad program in Mali in the fall of 2011. Hall is the author of "A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960." At Duke, he is an assistant professor of history and African and African American Studies. This year he is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and participated in the interview via Skype. "Office Hours" is Duke's live webcast series for the university community, and others, to engage with professors about their research and scholarship.

This week's newz kicks off with an update and a new rape case from northern India. Then we get into Northern Mali, as France takes action, who are the armed groups in the country? Aaron Swartz and his life's work remembered. The first ever Global Atlas for Renewable Energy has been launched. And with the beginning of the new year, the Netherlands has amended their new weed policy in ways that make us go.. hmmmm. All this and more on yet another memorable edition of Newz of the World!

Islamist rebel groups in Northern Mali recently announced a ban on music in all areas under their control. We take you back to the first Festival in the Desert in 2001, which launched Tuareg music on the world scene. Photo: Tuareg at first Festival in the Desert. Copyright Andy Morgan