Thousands of Mali's ancient transcripts go digital
Thursday, March 10, 2022 | 600 Views |

Mali's ancient manuscripts
The manuscripts have been endangered by political unrest in the country's north, which in 2013 saw Islamist rebels set fire to two libraries in Timbuktu.
The digitisation project will be unveiled on Thursday and will showcase work done over the last seven years to preserve the documents.
Sadly, the country seems not to have proper tools and the extent to which women and the girl-child are being abused is not adequately measured.Almost every week there are reports of women being attacked by their significant others and while men are attacked as well, women seem to be more on the receiving end.On May 24, 2023 news broke that a woman who was receiving support from the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention Centre in Gaborone, was...