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Flag of Mali. The national flag of Mali (drapeau national du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets the flag) the colours are green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag of Mali is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in ...
Flag Date Use Description 1890–1958: Flag of The French Third Republic, The Provisional Government of the French Republic and The French Fourth Republic: A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 3:2). 1940–1942: Flag of Vichy France: A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red with the axe and 7 golden stars. 1942–1944 ...
Flag of Free France: A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red with The Cross of Lorraine. [6] Colonial flags 1958–1959: Flag of The French Sudan: The French tricolor with a black Kanaga centered on the white band. [7] 1959–1960: Flag of The Mali Federation: a vertical tricolor of green, gold, and red with a black Kanaga centered on the ...
According to Sékou Touré, first President of Guinea, the three colors of the flag represent the following: red symbolizes the blood of anti-colonialist martyrs, the labor of the working classes, and the wish for progress; yellow represents Guinean gold, as well as the sun, which is "the source of energy, generosity and equality for all men to which he gives light equally"; and green ...
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Flag (1958–1961) The Union of African States (French: Union des États africains), sometimes called the Ghana–Guinea–Mali Union, was a short-lived and loose regional organization formed in 1958 linking the West African nations of Ghana and Guinea as the Union of Independent African States. Mali joined in 1961. It disbanded in 1963.
Guinea and Mali finished level on the second spot after the group stage, making the first drawing of lots needed at the tournament since 1988. Unlike some other international tournaments, 2015 Africa Cup of Nations tournament regulations would not use fair-play criteria or a penalty shoot-out after the teams met on the last match day to ...
Wassoulou, sometimes spelled Wassulu, Wassalou, or Ouassalou, is a cultural area and historical region surrounding the point where the borders of Mali, Ivory Coast, and Guinea meet. Home to about 160,000 people, [ citation needed ] it is bordered by the Niger River to the northwest, and by the Sankarani River to the east.