09/24/2012 | Kaidia Samaké
Women traditionally cannot own land in Mali, making it hard for rural women to earn money. Kaidia explains how the women’s association in her village helps women earn money and distributes loans.
08/29/2012 | Kaidia Samaké
So far the rains have been good and Kaidia has started planting crops for the next season. But without a bull to help plough her land she has to choose between sowing the seeds late or sowing them without ploughing.
08/20/2012 | Lilly Peel
In Kaidia’s latest blog she tells us that children are the worst affected by the hungry season. Malnutrition means they are more susceptible to illnesses, such as relapses of malaria, and are unable to work in the fields to sow the next season’s crops.
08/15/2012 | Lilly Peel
For almost a year we have been following the life of Kaidia Samaké who lives in the village of Gwelekoro in Mali. With a food crisis currently sweeping the Sahel, Kaidia’s blogs trace how the annual ‘hungry season’ intensified, pushing her family and other villagers to the brink of starvation.
08/02/2012 | Lilly Peel
Today’s photograph captures a member of the Malian women’s basketball team. Basketball is growing in poularity in Africa.
07/30/2012 | Kaidia Samaké
As the food crisis worsens in Mali, our blogger Kaidia Samaké fears she will not be able to fast for all of Ramadan because she does not have the nutritious food needed to to break her fast when the sun goes down each evening.
05/28/2012 | Kaidia Samaké
As rebel groups in Mali combine to announce an independent Sharia state after the recent Northern coup, Kaidia voices her fears about her future in the south of Mali.
05/17/2012 | Kaidia Samaké
“We know we are destroying our environment… but we don’t have any choice.”
05/04/2012 | Kaidia Samaké
Kaidia explains the urgent matters that the new Mali government must attend to – the economy, education and hunger.
05/02/2012 | Soumaïla T Diarra
A new ‘Family Code’ law, passed earlier this year in Mali, has dashed hopes of increasing women’s rights in the strongly patriarchal West African country