The Poverty and Violence of Daily Life in Mali -- John Campbell, The Atlantic
Mali was broken long before this latest crisis.
With attention focused on radical Islamists, a dysfunctional government in Bamako, and the French military intervention, it is easy to overlook that for most Malians, to stay alive is, in itself, often a struggle. To cite a few illustrative statistics from the CIA World FactBook, the country's birthrate and infant mortality rate are the second highest in the world. Infant mortality exceeds 10 percent. Life expectancy at birth is among the shortest in the world. More than 10 percent of the population is nomadic; in the north, that percentage is far higher. With climate change and the Sahara desert creeping ever southward, life for rural and nomadic populations in the north is getting worse; even at the best of times. Drought is now a common reality.
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My Comment: Mali is one of those countries where even if billions are spent and thousands of foreign troops positioned to keep the peace .... it will still remain a mess.
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