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Politics of Mali. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita - IBK (Page Officielle) Mali: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, l'homme de la situation? - Mali / Politique. A 68 ans, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta devient le nouveau président du Mali.

Mali: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, l'homme de la situation? - Mali / Politique

Il a été élu avec 77,6% des suffrages le 11 août dernier. IBK a commencé sa carrière politique au début des années 90. Tour à tour ambassadeur, ministre, Premier ministre, président de l'Assemblée nationale, président du parti ADEMA, il a connu des heures de gloire et des traversées de désert. Cette investiture est l'occasion de mieux cerner le nouveau maître du Mali. A la question «à quel animal peut-on associer Ibrahim Boubacar Keita ?» Un homme à poigne IBK a cependant une réputation d'un homme à poigne qui lui vient de la période où il était le Premier ministre d'Alpha Oumar Konaré.

Une maturité liée également à sa traversée du désert entre 2000 et 2002, puis après 2007. L'homme de la situation IBK est perçu par beaucoup de Maliens comme l'homme de la situation : il incarne une certaine idée de l'honneur et de la dignité malienne. Mais IBK est un homme habile et un tacticien. Mali's new President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita sworn in. 4 September 2013Last updated at 12:00 ET.

Mali's new President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita sworn in

Ibrahim B. Keita (IBK_2013) sur Twitter. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Mali's New President, Will Face Touareg Challenge. Mali's new president names first post-rebellion cabinet. Mali's president names banker as prime minister - MALI. Mali country profile - Overview. 1 October 2013Last updated at 09:00 ET The landlocked West African country of Mali - one of the poorest in the world - experienced rapid economic growth after the 1990s, coupled with a flourishing democracy and relative social stability.

Mali country profile - Overview

This all hung in the balance in early 2012, when the steady collapse of state control over the north of the country was followed by an inconclusive military coup and French military intervention against Islamist fighters who threatened to advance south. How many members are there in the Mali legislature? Mali. Supporting Transparent and Credible Elections In July 2011, NDI launched a U.S.

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Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded program to help local civil society organizations monitor key aspects of the anticipated 2012 electoral process, including revision of the voter list and holding of presidential and legislative polls. At the program’s outset, NDI and its partners, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and Internews, conducted a thorough assessment of the pre-election environment through interviews with political parties, government, electoral management bodies, civil society organizations, and local women and youth associations.

NDI also helped APEM revise its election monitoring strategy to release its findings in a more timely, systematic and reliable manner. In February 2012, NDI helped APEM organize a conference on best practices in election monitoring, and on integrating new technologies into such efforts. Soldiers Overthrow Mali Government. Mali : Mali: Women’s rights must be at the core of the. During the conflict that has ravaged Northern Mali for over a year, women and girls have been particular targets of violence: rape and other forms of sexual violence, forced marriage, sometimes to several men, public floggings, and beatings as punishment for “immoral acts”.

Mali : Mali: Women’s rights must be at the core of the

Islamist armed groups occupying the region focussed attacks on the status of women, preventing girls from going to school, preventing women from working and moving freely in public spaces, obliging women to wear the veil... Thousands of women and children are among those who fled the violence and who now find themselves displaced within the country or across its borders. Today, our organisations pay tribute to the combat of the Malian people who have struggled for democracy and equality and against obscurantism and who have rejected the imposition of measures violating women’s rights.

Justice is a priority. Durable peace cannot be achieved without justice for the victims. Women's rights in Mali 'set back 50 years' by new 'Family Code' law. Village voice … Binta Samake: ‘We are different from men; we don’t have the power of decision’.

Women's rights in Mali 'set back 50 years' by new 'Family Code' law

Photograph: Andrew Esiebo/Panos Farima Samake, a widow living in the village of Gwelekoro in the south of Mali, regrets obeying her husband when he took their first daughter out of school to take care of her younger brother. "Her father decided it and I didn't refuse," says Farima. "Now she is married in another village not far from here.

I think our decision has been an injury to her because if she had studied her life could have been different. " "In all the villages of this region, girls get married at 15 or 16, even if they go to school," she says. Malian Women Press for Peaceful, Fair Elections. Cross-posted from UN Women.

Malian Women Press for Peaceful, Fair Elections

Mali women's rights bill blocked. The president of Mali has announced that he is not going to sign the country's new family law, instead returning it to parliament for review.

Mali women's rights bill blocked

Muslim groups have been protesting against the law, which gives greater rights to women, ever since parliament adopted it at the start of the month. President Amadou Toumani Toure said he was sending the law back for the sake of national unity. Muslim leaders have called the law the work of the devil and against Islam. Middle East: Women's Rights in Mali. The Gender Inequality Index, a measurement for gender disparity that takes into account the loss of achievement within a country based on three things.Reproductive health,Empowerment,Labor market participation Mali currently ranks 132 out of 146 countries on the index maxing it one of the lowest in the world.

Middle East: Women's Rights in Mali

Despite having the same legal rights as men, women in Mali still deal with deep-seated cultural issues which prevent many of them from exploring their options. It begins with education where only about have the girls up to age 12 attend primary school (49.3%) while more than 60% of boys attend. Many social conditions can influence this number and currently, poverty, lack of infrastructure, early marriage and an emphasis on boys education prevent more girls from going to school. While technically equal before the law, men and women in Mali still conform to the old social norms. The biggest problem in reducing the gender disparity gap is not necessary the legislation.