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Mali: Arm Mali
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The Mali SDK is the latest addition to the ARM graphics portfolio, which addresses the market need for high performance and low power consumption for games and user interfaces. With its advanced processors, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) including the Mali55(tm) and Mali200(tm) processors, and RealView(R) development tools, ARM provides its silicon Partners with a complete system implementation that is as efficient as possible within the constraints of an embedded environment.
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[T]he revolution in Mali was a result of the combination of politically ‘literate’ civil society groups, mass unrest and, crucially, the intervention of the military. But Mali ... stands out for the ways in which these groups continued. The military, far from maintaining their renewed central role, stood aside and accepted civilian political control (which included the disbanding of potentially destabilising NCO ‘unions’ within the army). Like wise, the ADEMA administration, which could easily have taken a high-handed approach to government, given its initial majority, has come back to consultation with civil society and the people time and time again, not just when crises loom, but also to decide upon the trajectory of the nation.
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In the 1960s, Mali concentrated on economic development, continuing to accept aid from both Soviet bloc and Western nations, as well as international agencies. In the late 1960s, it began retreating from close ties with China. But a purge of conservative opponents brought greater power to President Modibo Keita, and in 1968, the influence of the Chinese and their Malian sympathizers increased. The army overthrew the government on Nov. 19, 1968 and brought Mali under military rule for the next 20 years. Mali and Burkina Faso fought a brief border war from Dec. 25 to 29, 1985. In 1991, dictator Moussa Traoré was overthrown, and Mali made a peaceful transition to democracy.
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Under Keita’s presidency Mali became a one-party state committed to socialist policies. In 1962 the country withdrew from the Franc Zone and adopted a nonconvertible national currency. The resulting economic and financial difficulties forced an accommodation with France in 1967; Mali devalued its currency, returned to the Franc Zone, and permitted French administrators to assume a supervisory role in the economy. Militant elements in the Sudanese Union opposed this rapprochement... and Keita formed a people’s militia to destroy opposition. The arrest of several dissenting army officers by the militia in 1968 provoked a bloodless military coup that overthrew the Keita regime and installed Lt. Moussa Traoré as president. The country continued to pursue a course of nonalignment in international affairs.
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Mali's population consists of diverse Sub-Saharan ethnic groups, sharing similar historic, cultural, and religious traditions. Exceptions are the Tuaregs and Maurs, desert nomads, related to the North African Berbers. The Tuaregs traditionally have opposed the central government. Starting in June 1990, armed attacks in the north by Tuaregs seeking greater autonomy led to clashes with the military. In April 1992, the government and most opposing factions signed a pact to end the fighting and restore stability in the north. Its major aims are to allow greater autonomy to the north and increase government resource allocation to what has been a traditionally impoverished region.
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Mali is the heir to a great historical tradition. A series of powerful empires carried this name in the past, even though not all fell within the present borders of the country. MANSA KANKAN MUSA - EMPEROR OF MALI was one of the most renowned of all the monarchs of the old Sudan. The Emperor claimed that the length of his realm was "about one year". The high point of the empire occurred in the 16th century thanks to a very busy gold trade. France found it hard and long to conquer Mali, and the army had to engage a full scale war which lasted 15 years to overcome the resistence of the last tribes.
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