Travellers on routes between Northern Malian cities and “In Khalil” town on the borders with Algeria are increasingly having to deal with road bandits. The route has become a source of fear; safety of travellers is no longer guaranteed.
Northern Mali desert relies largely on Sharia courts. Disputing parties seek traditional religious courts to resolve their conflicts and follow up on their complaints, substituting civil judiciary and official courts, especially in remote desert towns and villages.
Many Bedouin shepherds’ lives are being threatened by acts of vandalism, robbery and burglary in northern Mali, exactly in Timbuktu, despite the peace agreement and reconciliation have been signed between the conflicting parts in Mali.
Traditional water wells on the border between Mali and Mauritania: An ongoing hardship and suffering
A large number of the residents of the villages and the countryside on the border between Mali and Mauritania struggle daily with the problem of providing drinking water, as they use traditionally dug wells where access to water is difficult.
Many Bedouin shepherds’ lives are being threatened by acts of vandalism, robbery and burglary in northern Mali, exactly in Timbuktu, despite the peace agreement and reconciliation have been signed between the conflicting parts in Mali.
The terms "drug sellers on the ground" or "pharmacy on the ground" refer to vendors offering drugs on the sidewalk. The phenomenon is increasing day by day in Bamako, as everywhere in Mali. It is, apparently, beyond any control.
To survive, many poor people in Bamako have embarked on the collection of household and industrial waste dumped in the landfills in the capital. They sell the waste later for a few hundred CFA francs* to individuals or companies specializing in waste treatment. Although the activity allows them not to starve, it is not without any risk..
The ferocity of the war in Syria pushed Fatma Abbas’s family and other families to leave Idlib, the Syrian city, on a long trip to seek asylum that led them from one continent to another. At first, they found themselves in Khartoum, where they received an unexpected welcome as Fatma states which led them to continue seeking a more welcoming place and they finally reach the city of “In Khalil”, located 700 km to the northeast of Timbuktu in the far north of Mali near the Algerian borders.
Children begging in Mali in general and in Bamako in particular, has become a very serious scourge. These children spend their time begging at the traffic lights, in religious shrines and very often in front of hotels.
Although they are cornered and continually harassed, smugglers networks still resist. They even ended up developing parades. I must say that smuggling has, for many years, been a well organised activity and, moreover, it has a shared complicity on both sides of the borders between Mali and Algeria.
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