Author Archives: mkevane

“Le Conseil a été informé d’un projet de loi portant modification de la Constitution. Les innovations majeures portent entre autres sur : la constitutionnalisation de la chefferie coutumière et traditionnelle, du genre, du Médiateur du Faso et du Conseil supérieur … Continue reading →

Le capitaine Sanogo, chef de la junte malienne qui a pris le pouvoir le 22 mars a annoncé, ce vendredi 6 avril, la signature d’un accord-cadre avec le représentant du médiateur burkinabè pour la crise malienne Djibril Bassolé. Lors d’une … Continue reading →

Koulouba est au sommet d’une butte. Il n’y a qu’une seule voie d’accès. Or, les putschistes tiennent cette route. Il ne reste qu’une solution : descendre à pied la colline par-derrière, en direction du quartier de Dar Salam. C’est là … Continue reading →

I loved reading this quite charming graphic novel, about difference and courage….  More about Vera Brosgol is here.    

We had a great departmental seminar today with Alessandra Cassar reporting on experiments done in Italy and Kosovo.  She and co-author ask whether playing a “trade game” where some players have an impartial enforcement mechanism and other players have a … Continue reading →

Not women, very much, it seems. A new paper by Laura Zimmermann from University of Michigan, using data from India. It is well-documented that in a number of countries unnaturally few girls are born relative to boys. Explanations have focused … Continue reading →

The short article by Menzie is a pithy summary of the most important “missing link” in most intermediate macro… unfortunately not that easy to incorporate into the model without seeming very ad hoc, and without ending up with a $20 … Continue reading →

« Quand la barbe de ton voisin brûle, arrose d’eau la tienne », indique un proverbe sahélien. Mais quand c’est la case du voisin qui brûle, il devient dérisoire d’enfouir sa tête dans le sable. Les destins du Mali et … Continue reading →

Martin Vogl ‏ @martinvogl tweets and retweets What is ordinary life in Kidal, Gao, Timbuktu going to be like now? Shops? Banks? Hospitals? Administration Off the phone with friends in #Gao: Vehicles stolen, banks/NGOs/hospitals looted. Medicine, gas and water in … Continue reading →

Timbuktu apparently has been abandoned to the MNLA, and Sanogo realizes that he’s going to be jailed or killed in a couple days if he doesn’t throw in the towel.  What on earth are the soldiers thinking, or are they … Continue reading →

The assessment of the coup at this point has to be that the soldiers have taken Mali to a very grim turn indeed. BAMAKO, 30 mars (Xinhua) — L’annonce de la prise de Kidal par les rebelles a plongé le … Continue reading →

The Prime Minister of Burkina, Luc Adolphe Tiao, just gave his “discours a la nation” where he mentioned: Les six (6) mines d’or en activité ont porté la production industrielle d’or à 32,60 tonnes en 2011, contre 23,08 tonnes en … Continue reading →

Le capitaine Sanogo s’est en revanche rendu à l’aéroport de Bamako. Pendant plusieurs heures, il s’est entretenu à huis clos avec Djibril Bassolé ou Mohamed Bazoum, chefs des diplomaties burkinabè et nigérienne, ainsi qu’avec Adama Bictogo, ministre ivoirien de l’Intégration … Continue reading →

The Mali coup is one of those opaque events that are really hard to figure out.  Observers try, and they have to produce something (for their blogs, or their employers) … but in their hearts they know they really have … Continue reading →

Over at The American Interest: They present a sharply bifurcated distinction between what they call good “inclusive” economic and political institutions, which are sometimes also labeled “pluralistic,” in contrast to what they call bad “extractive” or “absolutist” ones. Unfortunately, these … Continue reading →

Link to the interview, not sure where it broadcast.  Sanogo asserts ATT has no soldiers with him.  “No one” is protecting ATT.  No fear of counter-coup.

An excellent opinion piece by Jean-Pierre Béjot of La Dépêche Diplomatique: It’s crazy ! Totalement fou. A-t-on jamais vu un président de la République être destitué par un « coup d’Etat » à quelques semaines d’une présidentielle (à laquelle il n’était pas candidat) … Continue reading →