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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 reverse order.
Use. Description. 1993-Present. Presidential Flag of Guinea. A vertical tricolour of red, yellow and green with the national coat of arms in the center. 1984-1993. Presidential Flag of Guinea. A vertical tricolour of red, yellow and green with the national coat of arms in the center. 1958-1984.
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 ...
Guinea (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ n i / ⓘ GHIN-ee), [a] officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, Côte d'Ivoire to the southeast, and Sierra Leone and Liberia to the south.
Flag of The Massina Empire (possible) A yellow field with a green crescent moon and 3 5-pointed stars in the center. 1878–1898. Flag of The Wassoulou Empire. A horizontal tricolor of blue, cyan and white with a red triangle based on the hoist side and a 7-pointed star inside of the triangle with a little red diamond inside the star.
West Africa, also called Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).
Mali. Mali, [c] officially the Republic of Mali, [d] is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,240,192 square kilometres (478,841 sq mi). [9] The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauritania, to the south by Burkina Faso and ...
The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people[a] are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. [22] Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa, South Sudan, Darfur, and regions near the Red Sea coast in Sudan. The approximate number of Fula people is unknown ...