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Mali (1338 words) |
 | Mali was one of the greatest states in the world of its time, but is now one of the poorest countries on earth. |
| Mali is one of the best-known countries in West Africa. |
| After a short-lived federation with Senegal, the independent Republic of Mali was established in 1960 under President Modibo Keita, Mali was a one-party state under its President Modibo Keita who led the country on a path of socialism, with heavy emphasis on the role of the public sector in the economy. |
| Migration Information Source - Mali: Seeking Opportunity Abroad (3844 words) |
| Mali's industry contributes only 15 percent of GNP and is limited to food processing, construction, and phosphate and gold mining. |
| The number living outside Mali in 2000 is not precisely known, but if the pace of emigration throughout the 1990s continued at least at the level observed in the late 1980s, namely 48,000 to 54,000 per year, it is likely that in 2000 there were in the vicinity of 4,400,000 Malians living in other countries. |
| Until a peace accord was signed in 1995, 200,000 people in Mali fled the conflict zones of the north for the relative calm of the southern districts, and another 55,000 fled the country as refugees. |
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