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Foreign Trade of Mali, Bamako, Kayes



Business in the Republic of Mali: Gao, Koulikoro, Timbuktu (West Africa).

Mali is a West African country

  1. Mali is a landlocked country
  2. Capital of Mali: Bamako (1.8 million inhabitants)
  3. Gold Mines (third African exporter)
  4. Mali share borders with seven countries: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mauritania (2,237 kilometres), Niger and Senegal

The Republic of Mali is composed of eight regions and one district (Bamako):

  1. Bamako (district)
  2. Gao
  3. Kayes
  4. Kidal
  5. Koulikoro
  6. Mopti
  7. Ségou
  8. Sikasso
  9. Timbuktu

Foreign Trade and Business in Mali Mali

  1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport in Africa
  2. Doctorate in African Business

Master International Business (Malian Students)

More information: Business in Mali, at EENI Website.

Foreign Trade and Doing Business in Mali

  1. Official language of Mali: French
    1. Bambara (vehicular language, 50% of the Malian speak Bambara) is the most used
    2. The Malian State recognise as national languages: Bobo, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Soninke, Songhai, Senufo-minianka, Tamasheq, Hassanya, Khassonké, Madenkan and Maninkakan
  2. Total Malian Area: 1,241,238 km²
    1. 65% of the Malian territory is desert (Sahara) or semi-desert (Sahel)

Foreign Trade and Business in Mali

  1. Total Malian population: 18 million inhabitants
    1. 80% of the Malian work in agriculture or fishing
    2. 10% of the Malian population is nomadic
  2. Both the Senegal River and the Niger River cross Mali
  3. Calling code of Mali: +223
  4. Country code top-level domain: .ml
  5. Mali war (2012)
  6. Military intervention in Mali

Main Malian cities: Kayes, Ségou, Mopti, Sikasso, Koulikoro, Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu.

Foreign Trade and Business in Mali

Trade Organisations (Mali)

  1. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
  2. Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
  3. West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
  4. U.S.-WAEMU Agreement
  5. Organisation for the Development of the Senegal River
  6. Niger Basin Authority
  7. OHADA
  8. G5 Sahel

Niger Basin Authority: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria

  1. African Union
  2. AUDA-NEPAD
  3. Economic Commission for Africa
  4. African Development Bank

“In Africa, when an old man dies, a library burns” Ahmadou Hampaté Bá

Ahmadou Hampaté Bá

Ahmadou Hampaté Bá, Malian Historian

Logistics in Mali

  1. Bamako-Senegal Railway (1,248 kilometres)
  2. Benin-Niger-Burkina Faso-Ivory Coast Railway Loop
  3. Access to the Dakar-Lagos Corridor
  4. Access to the Autonomous Port of Lomé

Benin-Niger-Burkina Faso-Ivory Coast Railway Loop

Dakar-Lagos Corridor: Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria

Religion in Mali:

  1. Sunni Islam (90% of the Malian population)
  2. African Traditional Religions
  3. Christianity (5% of the Malian population)

Malian Ethnic Groups:

  1. Bambara (the largest Malian Ethnic group)
  2. Bobos
  3. Bozo
  4. Dogon
  5. Khassonké
  6. Malinke (Mandinka)
  7. Minianka
  8. Fula
  9. Senufo
  10. Soninke
  11. Songhai
  12. Tuareg
  13. Toucouleur

History of Mali

  1. Ghana Empire
  2. Former Mali Empire (founded by Soundiata Keïta, 13th century)
  3. Mali Empire
  4. Songhai Empire
  5. Bambara Kingdom of Ségou
  6. Empire Fula of Macina
  7. French Colonisation: 1880 - 1960
  8. Mali obtained its Independence from France in 1960

Higher Education in Mali

  1. University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako
  2. University of Letters and Human Sciences of Bamako
  3. University of Social Sciences and Management of Bamako
  4. University of Law and Policy Sciences of Bamako
  5. University of Ségou

Mali is a member of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES)

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