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Daily news from Mali, West Africa.

The Republic of Mali is unique because of its famous city of Timbuktu. However, Bamako is its capital. It occupies a total landmass of 1,240,192 square kilometres. Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso border Mali to the south, Senegal and Mauritania to the west, and Algeria and Niger to the north and east. It gained independence in 1960.

The terrain contains: Sahara desert sands, flat lands, rivers, plateaux, mountains, a collection of hills rising up to over 500 metres at the peak. Mali sits on a part of the River Niger basin. Its climate is tropical, with an average temperature of about 860F or 300C.
The forests and rivers contain: cotton, baobab, mahogany, and kapok trees, along with lions, a variety of birds, snakes, monkeys, panthers, giraffes, hyenas, antelopes, elephants, and crocodiles.

The economy is based on agriculture and industry; along with trade on African art and craft. Cattle, goats, sheep, cassava, rice, cotton, peanuts, corn, millet, sugarcane, and fish are farmed for domestic and export purposes.
Its mineral and resource deposits include: iron-ore, manganese, bauxite, uranium, tin, crude oil, diamond, limestone, salt, gold, phosphate, and marble.
Industries in Mali include: palm oil and kernel, food, sugar, cotton and textiles, wood and matches, peanut and peanut oil, cement and bricks plants; along with the mining of and exploration for minerals and crude oil. All this constitutes an impressive array of export products.

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