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    Gurma (also called Gourma or Gourmantché) is an ethnic group living mainly in northeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, around Fada N'Gourma, and also in northern...
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    al-Fattash also states that in the 10th century Gao was situated on the Gourma side (i.e. the west bank) of the river. A large sand dune, La Dune Rose...
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    vacuum left by France's exit. Some AES partners include: G5 Sahel Liptako–Gourma Authority East African Community Anti-French sentiment Sometimes spelled...
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    historically been a crossroads of Zarma and Songhay people form the north, and the Gourma people, who dominated most of the area that is now Say Department...
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    common language in the north, where other Gur languages such as Mossi and Gourma are also found. The ethnic groups of the coastal region, particularly Ewe...
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  • civilian boat Tombouctou on the Niger River near the village of Banikane, Gourma-Rharous. The attacks prompted the Malian junta that took power in 2021 to...
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    around what is now Tera. The inhabitants at the time were related to the Gourma people, who form most of the population of the northwestern part of the Department...
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    Balavoine France 1986 Singer and songwriter Aérospatiale AS350 Ecureuil Gourma-Rharous, Mali Controlled flight into terrain during a sandstorm, with Thierry...
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    languages of Mali and is spoken by some 400,000 people along the Niger River from the town of Gourma-Rharous, east of Timbuktu, through Bourem, Gao and...
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  • 2022 Natiaboani ambush (category Gourma Province)
    in Natiaboani, Gourma Province, Burkina Faso, killing thirteen soldiers and an unknown number of jihadists. Much of Burkina Faso's Gourma Province has been...
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  • IISD. "Vision | Autorité de Développement Intégré des Etats du Liptako-Gourma" (in French). 2023-09-18. Retrieved 2023-11-29. "ARTISANAL & SMALL-SCALE...
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  • non-Kal Ansar groups around Timbuktu dialects spoken by certain groups in the Gourma of Gao and Ansongo The Tamasheq language has seven vowels in total: two...
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  • after giving them 20 computers. Dapaong is populated predominantly by Moba, Gourma, Mossi and Fulani. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dapaong is located in the...
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  • Songhai. The other common name for the region, Liptako–Gourma, is a reference to the Gourmantche people. Modern Liptako, most of which falls in 10 to 19 provinces...
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    crime and terrorism. The provinces of Kmoandjari, Tapoa, Kompienga, and Gourma in East Region due to crime and terrorism". The 2018 CIA World Factbook...
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  • between the Tuareg rebel coalition Strategic Framework for the Defense of the People of Azawad (CSP-DPA), and the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) backed by the Wagner...
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    much of North Africa during the time. Nowadays they are restricted to the Gourma area, a remote region in Mali south of a loop made by the River Niger near...
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    countries that employ the CFA franc as their common currency. The Liptako–Gourma Authority of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso seeks to jointly develop the...
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  • Gourmanché (Goulmacema, Gourma, Gourmantche, Gulimancema, Gulmancema, Gurma, Gourmanchéma) is the language of the Gurma people. It is the largest by number...
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  • Gossi, or Mare de Grossi, is a body of water near Gossi in the Cercle of Gourma-Rharous of the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The lake is near to the town of...
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    Ali Farka Touré (category People from Tombouctou Region)
    born in 1939 in the village of Kanau, on the banks of the Niger River in Gourma-Rharous Cercle in the northwestern Malian region of Tombouctou. His family...
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  • corpse occurred in Diankabou, Koro Cercle, Mopti Region, Mali, killing 17 people. This was the first attack involving a booby-trapped corpse throughout the...
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  • Tessit. French authorities claimed Albakaye was the head of ISGS in the Gourma and Oudalan provinces on the Malian-Burkinabe border. Albakaye was discovered...
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  • Malian Solidarity Bank by jihadists killed a child and injured 4 other people, according to an army spokesman and a hospital source. Four days later,...
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    Islamist insurgency in the Sahel (category Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa)
    fire on workers in a village, killing four people February 7 – French forces killed 30 insurgents in the Gourma and Liptako regions of Mali in the past two...
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  • On 1 July 2024, around 40 people were killed by armed men in Djiguibombo, in the Mopti Region of Mali. The attackers, who targeted a wedding ceremony,...
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    Kunta (tribe) (redirect from Kounta people)
    occupied two regions around the Niger Bend at this time: A small group in Gourma (right bank of the Niger) at Kagha (east of Timbuktu) and around Lake Garou...
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    means that demographically a majority of the city's citizens are young people. On 13 April 2024, hundreds rallied in the Niamey to demand the withdrawal...
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  • Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked Malian forces in the riverine town of Gourma-Rharous, Tombouctou region, killing eleven soldiers. On August 7, a small...
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    joined with contiguous regions of Mali and Burkina Faso under the Liptako–Gourma Authority. The border dispute with Benin, inherited from colonial times...
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