Events 2011
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MCC-CEO - Photos DOS/PAS Bamako
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes visited Mali to observe progress on the country’s five year, $461 million Millennium Challenge Compact. Mr. Yohannes toured the runway extension and new terminal at Bamako Airport, visited the integrated agricultural development project in Alatona, and met twice with Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT).
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Women in Electoral Process -Photos DOS/PAS Bamako
October 3 – 7, 2011 Dr. Susanna Wing, Political Science Professor at Haverford College and former Fulbright researcher in Mali, spent a week in Bamako meeting with political leaders, youth organizations, students, and the media to speak about "American Women and the Electoral Process..
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Young African Women Leaders Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa.
June 21–22, 2011: Fatimata Traore and Fatty Al-Ansar participated in the Young African Women Leaders Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. They were selected for their record of leadership and civic engagement.
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PAS Bamako offers English and Arabic books to La Source
June 29, 2011: Acting PAO Katherine Diop, accompanied by Cultural Assistant Aboubacar Cisse, visited a nursery school located in the ACI 2000 neighborhood to donate English and Arabic children’s books...
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The opening of a workshop on "Food Security, Climatic Change...
June 09, 2011: The Mali USDA-Borlaug Fellows convened a workshop on small-holder poultry enterprise development and food security in Mali at the Nord-Sud Hotel in Bamako.
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Arabic Book Donation
April 15, 2011: APAO Kathleen Peoples, accompanied by Cultural assistant Aboubacar Cisse, visited La Source, a medersa near the Embassy, to donate children’s books in the Arabic language.
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Art Exhibition
April 18, 2011: the American Club was the setting for an impressive exhibit of works by Luntala Tezadio, an artist from the Congo, now living in Mali. Tezadio happens to be deaf, and teaches art at the School for the Deaf in the HIppodrome area of Bamako. ..
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Peace Corps Volunteers Swearing in
April 12, 2011: To commemorate the 50st anniversary of the Peace Corps in Mali, President ATT hosted the swearing-in of sixty one (61) new Peace Corps volunteers in the banquet room at Koulouba...
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Airport Improvement Project
April 7, 2011: Ambassador Milovanovic Monitored Progress on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Airport Improvement Project Terminal Building Construction Site.
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Women of Excellence
March 29, 2011: To celebrate Women's Month, (March) Ambassador Milovanovic held the second annual Women of Excellence event on March 29th. Nominations for women making outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine and health, education, law, etc.
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Celebration of Women's Month
March 18, 2011: In celebration of Women’s Month, PAS Bamako collaborated with Mariam Diallo, a President's Young African Leaders Forum alumni, head of the Women Leadership and Development Association (AFLED) to screen "The Secret Pain," a film about one women's view of excision...
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PAS Bamako offers English teachers new teaching strategies in Ségou region.
March 7-11, 2011: As part of U.S. Embassy Bamako’s efforts to enhance English teaching and improve quality education, the Public Affairs Section, in partnership with English Inspectors from the Ministry of Education hosted an English Teaching Workshop in Ségou, Mali.
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Peace Corps Mali celebrates 50 years
March 01, 2011: Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic launched Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary year with the participation of Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane...
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Women’s Entrepreneurship in Agri-Business
February 14, 2011: Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic participated in the opening ceremony for a workshop on women’s entrepreneurship in agri-business.
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NIAID/NIH Grant Writing Workshop
February 14, 2011: PAO Kate Kaetzer-Hodson helped open a two-day workshop hosted by NIAID/NIH at the Hotel Salam in Bamako Mali. The workshop brings together over 80 researchers from across Mali to learn more about the grants process.