Another "demon moth" has appeared in Mali, an African country. The eldest and second brothers in the country were locked up by a group of troublemakers. As the former suzerain of Mali, France, one of the five permanent members, slapped the table and angrily criticized the troublemakers and made trouble.
Many friends may not be familiar with Mali, so let’s first introduce Mali with a certain amount of space.
Mali is a landlocked country located in northwestern Africa. It borders Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Algeria to the northeast, Niger to the east, and Burkina Faso to the southeast. Mali has a large area of 1.24 million square kilometers, equivalent to 12 Jiangsu provinces, with the capital being Bamako.
Mali is between the west coast of Africa and the Sahara Desert. The north is a desert area with a hot climate and the south is a rainy grassland area. As a great African river, the Niger River almost crosses the entire territory of Mali, bringing some nourishment to Mali, deep inland Africa, and it is also the main settlement of Mali people.
As a non-coastal country, what do Malians mainly rely on for their lives? Mali is a poor country with basically no decent industry, so it can process some food and publish and print, and that's almost the same. As for agriculture, it is the main industry in Mali, with the population employed in agriculture being about 68% of Mali’s approximately 19 million people. Mali's advantageous agricultural industry is cotton, with a population of up to 4.5 million, but production efficiency needs to be improved.
African countries like Mali have no industry and no agriculture, and survival depends more on selling resources.
Mali has rich mineral resources, such as 11.8 million tons of phosphate, 65 million tons of diatomaceous earth, 1.2 billion tons of bauxite, and 900 tons of gold. Mali attaches great importance to the development of gold for these mineral resources. Mali exports the most foreign countries, which actually reaches 40% of the country's foreign trade volume. Here we can tell a story of showing off our wealth. In 1324, nearly seven hundred years ago, in the era when the Mali Empire was at its peak, Mali Emperor Mansa Musa decided to go to Mecca, a holy city in western Saudi Arabia. What is he going to do? The most important thing is of course a pilgrimage, but at the same time, to show off wealth, to put it bluntly, it is to show off gold. Emperor Musa brought a huge team of 8,000 people, including 500 slaves, to the east. Let’s not talk about these 500 slaves for now. These are not ordinary slaves, but golden slaves. Every slave held a golden ritual staff weighing up to 2 kilograms. Someone who is interested in it calculated that at the current price of gold, a golden staff is worth about 700,000 yuan in my country's currency. This is true for slaves. It is conceivable that Emperor Musa has so much gold. For example, the camel caravan traveling with Moussa has a total of 100 camels. Since camels can carry weights, their task is to carry 130 kilograms of gold and move forward under the setting sun of the Sahara Desert.
After Musa, who regarded gold as dung, and his party arrived in Mecca, it severely hit Arab gold merchants, causing the local gold price to fall at the speed of light, which could not be recovered for many years, and many people went bankrupt as a result.
This time, the Mali emperor's wealth show-off incident also shocked Europe, and Europeans have since targeted Mali, where gold is everywhere. Europeans once drew a map of Mali in 1339, with Emperor Musa sitting in it. Of course, when France in Europe began to colonize Mali, the Mali Empire had long collapsed (deceased in 1611), and the native chickens, tiled dogs and dogs scattered like birds and beasts.
France did not rule in Mali for too long. Since 1895, Mali was allowed to begin autonomy in 1958 and was independent in 1960. Although Mali became king, it was still strongly influenced by France. The United States is the world's largest power, but its influence in Western Africa is not as good as that in France. If Latin America is regarded as its own backyard by the United States and can raise chickens and ducks, then West Africa is the "backyard" of France, and you can do whatever you want.
France needs to maintain a strong influence in Mali, and as a poor country, Mali also needs France to throw a few melons if you have nothing to do. Not to mention the distance, in 2018, France provided Mali with US$100 million, which is less than half of the 218 million US dollars.However, West Africa has never been a key area for the United States to deploy globally, while France is only a regional power. The areas that can have a significant impact are West Africa and some other small places. Therefore, France attaches more importance to West Africa, and France's economic strength is not as good as the United States.
Why do civil strife often occur in African countries such as Mali? It is common for managers to passively dismiss classes.
Some people analyze that this is Mali (including many African countries) and does not actually form a stable class, but it is more of a tribal interest, but it completely refers to Western election methods. In the West, the seemingly mature election method has become a tool for tribes to compete for interests, and it is to undermine each other anyway.
As for when will African poor countries like Mali stabilize? It seems very difficult. First, the international environment does not allow space for the rapid development of state-owned economy such as Mali, and second, the tribal storm in countries such as Mali also seems to be difficult to see when it will end.
