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The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Pearce, Fred
Book
2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis: Following the Money
Mountain, Thomas
Article
2013
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.

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CCI fosters global understanding by placing Canadian volunteers in the developing world, placing volunteers from developing nations in Canada, and sponsoring community education programs. Each year, m...
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Plan International Canada strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of children, families and communities in more than 30 developing countries in Africa, Asia and Central and Sout...

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'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
Worrall, Simon
2016
Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
Mali disintegrates
‘People are rejecting injustice’
Carayol, Rémi
2018
Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Hirsch, Afua
2013
Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
The treasures of Timbuktu
The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
Rice, Xan
2007
West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house ...

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