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	Tombouctou Region at AllExperts
		Tombouctou is the largest northern-most region of Mali, comprised mostly of the Southwestern section of the Sahara desert.
		Tombouctou is famous for the semi-mythical city Timbuktu (or as known in French, Tombouctou), synonymous with an elusive, hard-to-reach destination.
		Tombouctou's prominence went into decline after the city was captured by Morocco in 1590.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/to/tombouctou_region.htm (376 words)

	Mali (country) - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The central region is a semiarid belt known as the Sahel.
		The Songhai are farmers in southeastern Mali, and the Soninke are mainly traders in the northwestern region.
		Tombouctou was important for centuries as a trading post on the caravan routes that linked West Africa with the Mediterranean.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761568071__1/Mali_(country).html (4585 words)

	Tombouctou Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tombouctou is the largest northern-most region of Mali, comprised mostly of the Southwestern section of the Sahara desert.
		Tombouctou is famous for the semi-mythical city Timbuktu (or as known in French, Tombouctou), synonymous with an elusive, hard-to-reach destination.
		The riches of the kingdom were due to Tombouctou's position as the Southern terminus of the trans-sahara salt and gold trade route.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tombouctou_Region (311 words)

	They spell it “Tombouctou”
		Shekaagou offered us the only remaining available option: one of us on the back of his motorcycle and the other on that of his friend's, no helmet for driver or passenger, as we clung to the drivers around their waists, festooned as we were with our packs and other possessions.
		To this day, caravans of anywhere from sixty to three hundred camels still carry up to sixty kilos each of salt from Taoudenni, some 740 kilometres to the north, making the sixteen-day trip mostly at night during the months of October to March, when the temperatures are at their coolest.
		This town is situated west of the escarpment itself, so there were no hillside dwellings, but the town is built on a hill, necessitating a lot of up-and-down climbing over rocks, and around narrow passageways that separate the homes.
	www.jaydavidson.com /peace_corps/pc_TheyspellitTombouctou.htm (4624 words)

	Tombouctou Region Map: Adabai Mahamoud — Zamane \| Mali Google Satellite Maps
		Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
		You are in Tombouctou (Mali), administrative region of level 1.
	www.maplandia.com /mali/tombouctou (636 words)

	Notes on Documents
		The Commandant du Cercle de Tombouctou organized a "concours agricole" (agricultural competition) which was well-attended and provided an opportunity for nomads and sedentaires (sedentary farmers from the river valley) to sell animals.
		The Commandant du Cercle de Tombouctou described at some length the French plans to encourage the salt trade as a way to bring wealth to Timbuktu, and observed that all of this was threatened by the Moroccan action.
		The Commandant du Cercle de Tombouctou thought it was due to mistreatment by the owners and poor loading technique that allowed the salt barres to scrap the animal's flanks.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/archives/anm/1q89fa1.htm (1827 words)

	International refugee aid and social change in northern Mali
		The second factor is the environmental degradation brought about by 25 years of low rainfall between 1965 and 1990 which worsened into the catastrophic droughts of 1973 and 1984 and further destroyed the traditional livelihood of numerous nomadic clans.
		An added advantage of this strategy was the ability of the project to counterbalance the assistance provided for returnee communities by UNHCR and its partners with parallel measures destined for the sedentary populations of the area who had not been compelled to move.
		When the returnees were asked to compare their living conditions before and after the exodus they were unanimous in stating that their lives had improved after their return because they had found new sources of revenue and received a previously unknown degree of support, particularly in the all-important water and irrigation sector.
	www.jha.ac /articles/u022.htm (5447 words)

	Iron Deficiency Anemia - Mali
		Tombouctou Region- Childbearing age women including some pregnant women and some children.
		1415 in the Segou Region, in the Tombouctou region, 435 women of which 64 were pregnant.
		There are strategies to reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency by 30% in pregnant women, to achieve 100% supplementation coverage of pregnant women, to test community action strategies against anemia, to make the IEC for the consumption of foods rich in iron, and to promote the fortification of foods with iron.
	www.tulane.edu /~internut/Countries/Mali/maliiron.html (359 words)

	Notes on Documents
		In 1917, Commandant du Région de Tombouctou Alaysse resumed the excavation of a canal from Kabara to Timbuktu using forced labor.
		Drought damaged the millet and rice harvest in the Cercle de Tombouctou in 1930.
		The Cercle de Tombouctou received 330 tons of millet from Mopti, 120 tons of millet from Goundam, 150 tons of millet from San and 200 tons of rice from Gao.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/archives/anm/1q362fr.htm (1352 words)

	FEWS NET Region/Country Center
		At stations in the region’s principal towns, totals were 57 percent lower than normal in Kayes, 51 percent in Mopti, 38 percent in Katibougou (Koulikoro), 36 percent in Tombouctou, 33 percent in Sikasso, 31 percent in Kidal, 26 percent in Ségou, and 10 percent in Gao.
		In the lakeside area of Tombouctou, these crops were flooded by torrential rains, causing the loss of about 80 percent (5,600 ha) of the planted area, especially at Lake Télé, according to technical services.
		Rodents are reappearing in the fields in Niafunké and Tonka in Tombouctou Region and in Macina (Ségou), causing light damage to rice.
	www.fews.net /centers/innerSections.aspx?f=ml&m=1000672&pageID=monthliesDoc (1731 words)

	The Yak Site
		Like Lhasa or Samarkande, this mythical and former center of the world (which knows as many spellings as ways or means of arriving), is situated at the junction between the camel universe of the north and the pirogheis Niger river to the south - the last wall against desertification.
		But the astonishing scene had neither escaped the policeman nor the governor of the Tombouctou region who immediately stopped the transaction from the second balcony of the German sponsored boat.
		She was standing, solitary and frozen, tiny and fragile, defiant by instinct among immobile lying corpses: life against death.
	www.redfish.com /Yak/email08.22.00.htm (733 words)

	Timbuktu
		One of the promises of the new technologies, however, is their intrinsic capability to virtually eliminate (the concept of) borders -invented by mankind or created by nature- and to change the perception of distance.
		So the people outside of Tombouctou might actually be able to visit the MCT, but still their possible objectives for doing so were not clear to me. The presence of telephone booths had already provided them with a means of communication in the market area.
		The kids that were fortunate enough to be living in Tombouctou itself had the opportunity to learn French, a basic condition to land yourself a job of any significance in Mali.
	www.btinternet.com /~rvankoert/Timbuktu.htm (4123 words)

	Timbuktu on GlobalGuide.Org, mapping the world
		Timbuktu (Archaic English: Timbuctoo; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; French: Tombouctou) is a city in Tombouctou Region, Mali.
		It is home to the prestigious Qur'anic Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
		It is one of the eight regions of Mali, and is home to the region's local governor.
	www.globalguide.org /?lat=16.7759&long=-3.0094&zoom=5&name=Timbuktu&wiki=0&title=Timbuktu (2307 words)

	Mali - Consular Information Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The U.S. Embassy in Bamako urges U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel and to exercise extreme caution while traveling in northern Mali (Tombouctou Region and points north) or to any isolated area within Mali.
		While air travel to the city of Tombouctou is not considered particularly dangerous, overland travel is not advised.
		There have been several incidents of carjackings, armed robberies and banditry in Bamako and in the outlying regions of Gao, Kidal and Tombouctou.
	baby.indstate.edu /geo/cart/mali_ci.html (1146 words)

	C’est tout droit: Mopti, Gao & Tombouctou (3/21 - 4/9)
		The second week I travelled to Gao to join a group from Africare in a visit to one of their solar-powered radio stations in the village of Bourem Inaly, which is located in the Tombouctou region.
		Many consider this region the highlight of a trip to Mali; it is a place where you can trek from village to village and interact with local folks a bit more closely.
		The plan was to leave to Tombouctou the next day after I arrived to Gao, but in the end we had to wait two more days before being able to leave.
	www.travelblog.org /Print/Blog/5385/51725.html (4091 words)

	Tombouctou - Timbuktu images et histoire, pictures and photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Appelée "la perle du désert" Tombouctou la "mystérieuse" ne se raconte pas, on la voit.
		Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali.
		It is historically important as a post on the trans-Saharan caravan route.
	www.tombouctou.org (221 words)

	Contributions: Sahel Humanitarian Crisis, Mali: Appeal No. 05AA029 Annual Report, Situation Reports: Locusts - Aug ...
		The 2004-2005 harvest in the Sahel region was seriously affected by the worst locust invasion in twenty years, compounded by low rainfalls.
		In response to the food insecurity situation in the Sahel region, the International Federation launched an Emergency Appeal on 22 July 2005, for CHF 18,243,483, to assist 44,400 families (some 220,000 beneficiaries) in four countries, including Mali: http://www.ifrc.org/docs/appeals/05/05EA015.pdf.
		Distributions in the Tombouctou region reached an estimated 14,310 beneficiaries; thanks to the distribution support provided by the Mali Red Cross volunteers.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/HMYT-6SNRFP?OpenDocument (707 words)

	haftamag.com - Talking Timbuktu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Known as the “African John Lee Hooker”, Ali was born on the banks of the Niger River in the northwestern region of Tombouctou, famous for the semi-mythical city of Timbuktu.
		Born into a noble family, his parents disapproved of his taking up music, however being a man of determination and independence, and living up to his nickname “Farka”, which means donkey in his native language (symbolizing stubbornness and hard work), there was no stopping him.
		Ali was a musician and for whom virtuosity came naturally and who gave the world a demonstration that Africa was the real source of the blues.
	www.haftamag.com /content/view/173/42 (894 words)

	FEWS NET Region/Country Center
		These populations are dispersed throughout the regions of Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou, Mopti, Tombouctou, Gao and Kidal.
		Acute malnutrition rates are 15% in Bamba and Téméra (Gao region), 14% in the Nara (Koulikoro region) and Nioro and Diéma (Kayes region) areas, 11% in Aguel Hoc and Anefis (Kidal region), 8% in Ber (Tombouctou region), and 7% in Intillit (Gao region).
		However, additional resources for supplementary feeding are required to support the nutritional rehabilitation of 46,593 malnourished children and prevent the deterioration of the nutritional status of 128,012 children who are still at risk.
	www.fews.net /centers/innerSections.aspx?f=ml&pageID=specialDoc&g=1000779 (1516 words)

	Hazards Research Lab: Bibliography on the Interaction between Hazards and GIS
		GIS modeling of contaminant pathways and human exposure in the Nogales regions of the Mexico-US border.
		Jacobberger-Jellison, P. Detection of post-drought environmental conditions in the Tombouctou region.
		Identification of flood prone regions of Rapti River using temporal remotely sensed data.
	www.cas.sc.edu /geog/hrl/nasa_biblioprint.html (10055 words)

	Travel Consideration: Mali, .Mali Official Advisories Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Banditry and carjackings have historically plagued Mali's northern regions and the Mauritanian border.
		There have been several carjackings, robberies and murders in the Gao, Kidal and Tombouctou regions involving U.S. citizens and other foreign tourists.
		While banditry is not seen as targeting U.S. citizens specifically, the rise in violent incidents has greatly increased the risk to all travelers in the region.
	www.realadventures.com /listings/1024437.htm (1024 words)

	Gender & PGR - Fact Sheets
		Traditionally the people of the Tombouctou region grow two kinds of rice: floating rice called "Issa Moo" and bas fond, or valley-bottom rice, called "Kob," which means finger in the local language, because transplanting with the fingers is critical for the success of the crop.
		Women knew which varieties were easier to mill, and which cooked quickly, an important attribute in a region where fuel is scarce.
		Right across Sub-Saharan Africa, men and women play different parts in farming and feeding their families, although the details vary from zone to zone and throughout the region.
	ipgri-pa.grinfo.net /index.php?itemid=190&catid=11 (927 words)

	Tombouctou
		Like Lhasa or Samarkande, this mythical and former center of the world, which knows as many spellings as ways or means of arriving, is situated at the junction between the camel universe of the north and the pirogheis Niger river to the south; the last wall against desertification.
		Curious, quick and supple, they were like fish in the Niger River, swimming astuciously through the constant movement of people and goods.
		But African lethargy, which was all but a legend like Tombouctou, needed much more to be disturbed.
	www.bikereader.com /contributors/Marthaler/tombouctou.html (723 words)

	tombouctou - Ask.com Web Search
		The word "Timbuktu" (or Timbuctoo or Tombouctou) is used in several languages to represent a far-away place but Timbuktu is an actual city in...
		Tombouctou may be: Tombouctou Region in northern Mali The French name for the city of Timbuktu, which gives its name to the region...
		La Tombouctou des hommes qui y vivent n'est pas celle que j'imaginais.
	www.ask.com /web?q=tombouctou (312 words)

	FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report - August 1997 MALI
		Fodder supply is scarce in Kidal region and in Almoustarat arrondissement of Gao region.
		Following the collapse of a dam on Lake Horo in Tombouctou region, more than 1 000 hectares usually cultivated to off-season crops were flooded, leaving about 30 000 persons without production, needing external assistance.
		The national early warning system recommended maintaining a sufficient stock in Kidal region and to reconstitute stocks in Tombouctou region in order to cover needs in the Lake Horo area.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/W5994E/pays/af970827.htm (442 words)

	Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mali - Koulikoro region: Dioila and Koulikoro circles
		Mali - Mopti region: Douentza, Mopti and Youvarou circles and Tombouctou region: Niafunke circle
		Mali - Sikasso region: Kadiolo and Sikasso circles
	www.omidyar.net /group/worldconnectory/ws/mali (238 words)

	Tartit: Album Reviews, Biography - MOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Ensemble Tartit ("Tartit" means "union") are a band from the Tombouctou Region of Mali.
		The group comprised five women and four men, all of whom are members of the Tamasheq ethnic group (also known as Tuareg).
		They met in a refugee camp in Burkina Faso, where their music was a means of survival in the face of the economic, social and political difficulties of the region.
	mog.com /music/Tartit (157 words)

	IRIN Africa \| West Africa \| Mali \| MALI: Floods rendered 30,000 homeless - government \| Natural Disasters \| Breaking ...
		All eight administrative regions suffered losses in terms of property and cattle, but the worst hit were Tombouctou and Gao.
		In the locality of Goundam, Tombouctou region, two people died, along with some 1,209 head of cattle, and 6,612 sheep and goats, according to the Association of People from Goundam Resident in Bamako.
		The association, which sent 10 mt of cereals worth two million CFA francs (about US $30,000) to the district, said the entire harvest had been destroyed.
	www.irinnews.org /report.aspx?reportid=33864 (446 words)

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