Virginia Friends of Mali

The  Women, War and Peace  conference is over but you can review the program and papers at  www.vcupeace.net .

Please keep our friends and colleagues, neighbors and survivors in your hearts as residents from Bamako, Mali's capital city, are dealing with the terrible flooding that took at least 23 lives on Wednesday and left potentially thousands homeless. Here are a few links to news reports:  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/ africa/2013/08/ 201383015847117114.html?utm_ source=twitterfeed&utm_medium= twitter http://www.reuters.com/ article/2013/08/29/us-mali- floods-idUSBRE97S00I20130829 http://www.france24.com/en/ 20130830-killed-floods-mali- bamako-deaths-mud-houses ------------------ CPEL Segou has a new website Djibril Guisse, member of the Council for the Local Economic Development of Segou (Conseil pour la Promotion de l'Economie Locale de Segou), has written to announce that our sister city's equivalent to the Chamber of Commerce  has just relaunched website: www.cpelsegou.org. This is the organization that partnered to produce the first