This year, we have crossed the midpoint on our timescale for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Adopted at the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Development Goals set the minimum standards for combating poverty, hunger, illiteracy, gender inequalities, disease and environmental degradation in...

The food crisis that's currently shaking the planet up (in the Middle East, in Asia, and more precisely in about forty African countries) could have been foreshadowed if only we had paid more attention to the warnings of organisations such as The PAM and the FAO. It would today be inappropriate to talk about this crisis, the...

Paulo Gomes reflects on his personal transition from public to private-sector leadership with critical observations of the transformations taking place in African business and commerce. Formerly Executive Director at the World Bank, he is now President & Managing Partner of Constelor Investment Holdings, a Pan-African...

In Paris, during the 4th conference of the French speaking countries secretaries of Justice, one of the themes dealt on "Justice and Development", more precisely on the right and the regulation of Economy in the French speaking world. There was a lot of discussions about the development of new forms of criminality...

The impact and role of the emerging countries in a world governance is a burning issue. No one can ignore the fact that, for several years, new political and economic actors irrupted into the international debate, overthrowing the mutual state control system in which, up to recently, the traditional world governance was...

The president of the UN will be France, for six months, starting from July 1rst. Europe agreed to give a fresh start to the process of Barcelona that was started in 1995. It aims at committing in favour of a reinforced cooperation within the Mediterranean area. It will be presented as a UPM (Union project for the...

During the 1980s, Egypt and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) resolved to build the Bibliotheca Alexandrina with the same universal goals as the ancient one: a focal point for research, the advancement of knowledge and the open exchange of ideas. Today the Library stands as a...

Whether we like it or not, we are becoming One World. Globalization is here too stay. It is marked by mounting interdependence in all fields, economic, technological, social, cultural and ecological. A consensus is emerging to the effect that, if properly managed, globalization, can be a positive force for Mankind but,...

The Children’s Foundation was created fourteen years ago by my husband, the president Amadou Toumani TOURE, who was then the General, after months of transition spent at the head of Mali, in order to cope, among other things, with the distress of the children of Mali, because, as we all know it, they stand for the future of...

Mali is a central State of Western Africa, and it shares borders with Mauritania and Algeria (North), Niger (West), Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast (South), Guinea (South-West) and Senegal (West). Surface: 774 532m2. World Ranking : 24th.

For a very long time, our country has been dealing with streams of population. Oral tradition talks about the first Malian Empire created before the sixth century. It underwent a seven-year draught, and its population migrated toward the west, conducing to the birth of the great Empire of Ghana, the Empire of Mali’s ancestor....

The ministry of Malian expatriates and African Integration, of which I am the secretary, is a new ministry as it was created in 2004, after being a subsidiary ministry. It was created because the president of the Republic, SEM Amadou Toumani Touri, strongly wanted to create a secretary that would be dedicated to...

Mali has always been one of the best choices of the west of Africa for international tourists, not only for cultural tourism, but also as regards eco-tourism. We have four sites that are part of the World Heritage List of the UNESCO : the Old Towns of Djenné, Timbuktu, The Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) and the Tomb...

The proverb says that the road towards development goes through road development. It is why, throughout the PDES (Program for social and economic development) that was inspired by the President of Mali, his Excellency Amadou Toumani TOURE, we particularly focus on transport substructures. These dynamics were initiated in...

Energy is at the centre of the majority of the aspects of sustainable development, including the access to drinking water, agricultural and industrial productivity, healthcare, school level and the impact of the climate change over means of sustainable existence. Its links with other sectors are thus determining aspects with...

There are not such things as secrets as far as management is concerned. We did it with men and women, with a team and a work method based on seriousness, confidence, and enthusiasm : in only two years, our Bank has won more than twice its initial capital, and thus restored its own funds which were in the red only 18 months...

The cotton area is a strategic part of the policy of Mali as regards social and economic development. The CMDT supervises more than 3 million people. The exploitation of cotton is made of 200 000 family farms, that are cultivating about 8 to 10ha per farm, including 2 to 3ha of cotton in a cereal/cotton production system....

The fear of the worst that inhabits some Northern countries just witnessed the realization of a 25-year-old project: the birth of a storehouse of biodiversity, a sort of safe for all the seed species. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, situated in Norway, the initiator country, is already welcomed by international press as the...

Fatoumata, Constance, Morad, Xu, Julien… Even though they all belong to different social classes, they all share something in common: they made studies, got their high school diplomas, and are currently having a hard time finding their first job. They are customers of a Parisian pub which is absolutely unique. 100 volunteers...

Jacques Chirac, the former president of France, has always been keen to build up a culture of Peace and harmony. During his entire political carrier, he never stopped to fight against the fatality of War, against indifference towards illness or handicap. He also struggled for the development of solidarity, for the equality of...

Philippe Boissat is one of the founders of the non-profit business called the « International Independent Institute for Space & Satellite Solutions » (3i3S, to make it short). In only three years, this institute managed the feat of strength to become the inescapable place of exchanges and discussions dealing...

Claude Beau was formerly a willing judge for children, she is now the president of the association Mission Possible, which is the first association of precocious prevention created in order to reconcile youth with itself and with society. There are too many signs of youth's disquiet in our modern societies:...

We are to witness the creation of new branches all over the world to protect the universal and symbolic value of the cultural heritage of the Museum It has been a while since, at the end of the 18th century, a few European men were lead by their concern about art to gather up the treasures of the past, along private...

December the 21st, 2004, France suggested to the United Nations, the creation of a humanitarian international force of fast reaction, in order to coordinate the rescuing actions following natural, industrial or epidemic major disasters. At the origin of this proposition is Nicole Guedj, former minister who keeps supporting...