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Democratic Mali and Its Struggling Cotton Farmers |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Mvemba Phezo Dizolele |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,048 Words, 6,763 Characters |
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Like the country he represents in Washington, Mali's Ambassador Abdoulaye Diop is tall, robust, and has a powerful presence. He is gentle, affable, and cultured.
Mali, roughly twice the size of Texas, is West Africa's largest country. Once a great empire at the crossroads of trade, Mali slumbered in the shadow of its splendid historic cities like Timbuktu and Djenne for a hundred years. But, in the last decade, Mali has emerged as the African democracy.
For twenty-three years, the former French colony suffocated under the dictatorship of Moussa Traore. In 1991, Gen. Amadou Toumani Toure deposed the dictator in a bloodless coup d'etat. Toure broke military junta traditions, and within fourteen months steered the country to its first multiparty elections. He did not seek the presidenc...
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...percent of Mali's gross national product, or 8 percent of its income in exports."
Mali is the real test for U.S. and EU support for democracy in Africa. Democracy does not grow on poverty. Without economic fertilizers it will wither. The United States and the European Union should treat Mali as they would any other democracy in the world--as a partner.
© 2004 United Press International
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