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Introducing EIA in Mali

Wednesday, December 31st, 1997

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Easter 1997. I had started my trip out of Berlin early in the morning. In the late afternoon I arrived in Bamako, a totally different world. On my way from the airport to the hotel I got my first impression of Bamako, the capital of Mali.
Bamako looked more like a big market-town than the economic centre of a country. The taxi driver stopped his beaten-up Renault at one of the hundreds of mini-markets to buy one litre of fuel in an old water bottle. Taxi drivers only buy fuel one litre at a time in Mali, I noticed.

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