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Mali, one of the world's poorest nations, is greatly affected by poverty, malnutrition, epidemics, and inadequate hygiene and sanitation. Mali's health and development indicators rank among the worst in the world, with little improvement over the last 20 years. [1] Progress is impeded by Mali's poverty [2] and by a lack of physicians. [3]
Location in Africa, Mali. Ebola virus disease in Mali occurred in October 2014, [2] leading to concern about the possibility of an outbreak of Ebola in Mali. A child was brought from Guinea and died in the northwestern city of Kayes. [3] Mali contact traced over 100 people who had contact with the child; tracing was completed in mid-November ...
Mali is located in Africa. The history of the territory of modern Mali may be divided into: Pre-Imperial Mali, before the 13th century. The history of the eponymous Mali Empire and of the Songhai Empire during the 13th to 16th centuries. The borders of Mali are those of French Sudan, drawn in 1891. They are artificial, and unite parts of the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a timeline of Mali history. Each article deals with events in Mali in a given year. Twentieth century
The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé[ 3 ] or Manden Duguba; [ 4 ][ 5 ] Arabic: مالي, romanized:Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita (c.1214 – c. 1255) and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa (Musa Keita). At its peak, Mali was the largest empire in ...
The Bamako Initiative is a joint World Health Organization/ United Nations Children's Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Initiative aimed at solving the problems in the financing of primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa. It was launched in September 1987 at a regional WHO meeting, where Mr Grant, director of UNICEF, dealt with the severe economic crises ...
1948. Organization. The World Health Organization is established in April 1948 as a part of the United Nations that specializes in international public health. The WHO constitution is signed by a total of 61 countries on July 22 of 1946, and holds a meeting of the World Health Assembly on July 24 of 1948.
31 March: Rebels take over Gao. [ 15] April. Islamist fighters in northern Mali. 1 April: Rebels attack Timbuktu [ 16] Reports that Ansar Dine takes over the city and chases away MNLA fighters. [ 6] 2 April: ECOWAS and Mauritanian and Algeria place wide-ranging sanctions on the military government of Mali.