crisisgroup: Amid chaos, Malians hope to get their nation back on track | CNN By Moni Basu and Katarina Hoije  Professor Bruce Whitehouse’s blog from Mali began last fall as a slice of culture and society in the West African nation. Since March, it has been all politics — a repository of uncertainty, fear, expectations of a land in limbo. All of it was heightened this week when a mob stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Bamako, and brutally beat their country’s caretaker leader. “After Monday’s chaotic events, God sent the rains Tuesday morning to cool Bamakois’ heads and calm their spirits,” Whitehouse wrote on Bridges to Bamako. The Lehigh University anthropology and sociology professor has been working in Mali for the past few months. “It started around 4 a.m. (Tuesday) just as the first calls to fajiri (dawn) prayer were ringing out across the city, and built quickly to a heavy downpour punctuated by lightning and booms. After an hour or two it gradually tapered into a steady drizzle that lasted for four hours, until the morning commute was over. God kept sending down rolls of thunder every few minutes just to remind us. He was serious.” Whitehouse said people in Bamako, the Malian capital and a “budding West African metropolis,” as he describes it, were shocked by Monday’s events. “It is unbelievable,” said Yeah Samake, executive director of the education nonprofit organization Mali Rising Foundation. “It tells us that even the highest office in the country is not protected,” said Samake, who aspires to run for the presidency. “So Mali is in a serious problem.” Dioncounda Traore, Mali’s 70-year-old interim president, was flown to France for medical treatment. On the streets, supporters of the March 22 military coup clamored for its architect, Capt. Amadou Sanogo, to take the helm. FULL ARTICLE (CNN) Photo: NOAA/Wikimedia Commons
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areaofinterest: Michael Chase
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areaofinterest: Michael Chase
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disposablecentury: Flight of the Conchords 5/4/2010 Amsterdam poster, by Kevin Tong
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endilletante: Seydou Keïta.
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dasvulture: Ocean 2011
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The moon rises over the skyline of Manhattan and One World Trade Center (left) in New York on May 6, 2012. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters) #
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areaofinterest: Michael Chase
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