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Ghana is free but closely aligned to Mali, Guinea-Bissau is closely aligned to Mali, The Gambia is now integrated. Mauritania is independent.
Cheers. BTW, since I haven't mentioned so far, I've really enjoyed this TL. Well done, mate.
Borders of Mali
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Historically guinea hated the idea of a federation. While I had Felix assassinated to make the Ivory Coast more open, under no circumstance could I see Guinea joining
Part 17: Quiet Years
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2000-2010
The Quiet Years (2000-2010)
On January 5th 2000, Sankara would celebrate the 50th year of Malian independence, and on January 7th he would leave office for the final time, have served for over half of Mali’s time as a nation.
After the rapid reforms of Sankara, the immense events that rocked the nation, and the rapid growth, Mali needed a break. So from the years 2000-2010 the members of the Federal Council would elect chairman that best represented their interests. Meek, and desiring to uphold the status quo, much like the council itself at the time. Pascal Affi N'Guessan former organizer of various village communes, and cooperatives in the former Ivory Coast, and Vice President of the Socialist International. In a different time N’Guessan would have been a perfect replacement for Sankara. Still a younger man, experienced administrator, and popular with many, he was; however, forced to make numerous concessions to secure votes by the Federal Council.
The Council and Economic Union would oversee the continued economic growth of Mali by large cooperatives. While they would not defund or remove Sankara’s reforms due to fear of a revolt, they would still not expand government spending.
Militarily; Mali would however deploy its army to former French Colonial Niger, now known as SR Kanuri-Hausaland. The rise of the militant Islamic radical group Boko Haram in Nigeria threatened to cause a refugee crisis and combat on the border of Mali and Nigeria. To prevent this expansion by the Islamic Militant Group the Nigerian and Malian government would form a United Military Command (UMC) to contain and combat the threat. The Boko Haram Conflict (2002-2013) would be one of Mali’s longest engagements, as Mali held the 5th largest uranium reserves in the world it could not let destabilization of businesses in the area effect the economy.
In the realm of government expenditure Mali would plan to build 5 Nuclear Power Plants or 10 reactors supplied by uranium from the state. These would help provide 25% of Mali’s energy and were expected to be completed by 2020. This would put Mali ahead of South Africa who had one plant and 2 reactors (though by 2010 they would curiously announce they also planned to build 4 more), but as South Africa relied on Malian uranium, it also opened talks about construction within each others countries, sharing information between the two.
Socially, Mali would see the growing of a new conflict, one Sankara himself had failed to ever mitigate, and that was the growing mega cooperative-small business divide. While income inequality was low in Mali, the wealth disparity was slowly beginning to grow, and mega cooperatives had begun to amass more political and economic power to drive small businesses out of business. The government; however in it’s attempts to push status quo and not push massive reforms again, decided against acting to curb Megacooperative power.
Pascal Affi N'Guessan was never meant to be a long standing Chairman, so after a single term he was replace and recalled by the so called centrist faction within the council. In his place Django Sissoko was elected as the Sixth Chairman of Mali.
Django Sissoko has helped Mali build in its early years. Helping manage and encourage the construction of credit unions across Mali. He served as Minister of Finance, and was elected leader of several offices during his time in the Council. He had become a centrist poster boy, and it was hoped he could mitigate conflicts between large and small cooperatives and enterprises with his financial expertise.
Sissoko would have the unfortunate task of being Chairman during the 2008 Global Recession. Mali’s gdp growth fell to an all time low 1%. Many local small businesses would; however, feel a resurgence in power. The megacooperatives who had been harder by the recession found their position within Mali slightly give way to more breathing from for local businesses who continued to sell within Mali or to nearby neighboring countries. Once again as the crisis heightened the government adopted a neutral policy, letting the market operate and conflict as it had.
This backfired immensely for not only the economy, but the entire government. Youth radicals who had grown up during the Sankara era and been educated and raised by the various youth groups struck out this government inaction. Many young people themselves had been locked out of forming their own enterprises and cooperatives by megacooperative intimidation and manipulative business practices. These young radicals formed what was called the Forth Wave or Neo-Sankarists would be those inspired by his policies of reformism and equality.
In the 2009 council elections, the so called status quo centrist faction saw its control over the council plummet as their wide support base abandoned them in mass for more radical and young politicians. The 500 seat council was almost completely taken over by the Fourth Wave. Sankara after only having left office 10 years earlier saw his policies and politics vindicated by a new political movement. With the fall of the attempted status quo degradation of socialist values a new government headed by the first female leader of the Federation, Kamissa Camara the future appeared to be full speed ahead for Mali
Afterthought: One post down one more to go and it’s all over. Thanks I do appreciate everyone reading my first timeline.
The Quiet Years (2000-2010)
On January 5th 2000, Sankara would celebrate the 50th year of Malian independence, and on January 7th he would leave office for the final time, have served for over half of Mali’s time as a nation.
After the rapid reforms of Sankara, the immense events that rocked the nation, and the rapid growth, Mali needed a break. So from the years 2000-2010 the members of the Federal Council would elect chairman that best represented their interests. Meek, and desiring to uphold the status quo, much like the council itself at the time. Pascal Affi N'Guessan former organizer of various village communes, and cooperatives in the former Ivory Coast, and Vice President of the Socialist International. In a different time N’Guessan would have been a perfect replacement for Sankara. Still a younger man, experienced administrator, and popular with many, he was; however, forced to make numerous concessions to secure votes by the Federal Council.
The Council and Economic Union would oversee the continued economic growth of Mali by large cooperatives. While they would not defund or remove Sankara’s reforms due to fear of a revolt, they would still not expand government spending.
Militarily; Mali would however deploy its army to former French Colonial Niger, now known as SR Kanuri-Hausaland. The rise of the militant Islamic radical group Boko Haram in Nigeria threatened to cause a refugee crisis and combat on the border of Mali and Nigeria. To prevent this expansion by the Islamic Militant Group the Nigerian and Malian government would form a United Military Command (UMC) to contain and combat the threat. The Boko Haram Conflict (2002-2013) would be one of Mali’s longest engagements, as Mali held the 5th largest uranium reserves in the world it could not let destabilization of businesses in the area effect the economy.
In the realm of government expenditure Mali would plan to build 5 Nuclear Power Plants or 10 reactors supplied by uranium from the state. These would help provide 25% of Mali’s energy and were expected to be completed by 2020. This would put Mali ahead of South Africa who had one plant and 2 reactors (though by 2010 they would curiously announce they also planned to build 4 more), but as South Africa relied on Malian uranium, it also opened talks about construction within each others countries, sharing information between the two.
Socially, Mali would see the growing of a new conflict, one Sankara himself had failed to ever mitigate, and that was the growing mega cooperative-small business divide. While income inequality was low in Mali, the wealth disparity was slowly beginning to grow, and mega cooperatives had begun to amass more political and economic power to drive small businesses out of business. The government; however in it’s attempts to push status quo and not push massive reforms again, decided against acting to curb Megacooperative power.
Pascal Affi N'Guessan was never meant to be a long standing Chairman, so after a single term he was replace and recalled by the so called centrist faction within the council. In his place Django Sissoko was elected as the Sixth Chairman of Mali.
Django Sissoko has helped Mali build in its early years. Helping manage and encourage the construction of credit unions across Mali. He served as Minister of Finance, and was elected leader of several offices during his time in the Council. He had become a centrist poster boy, and it was hoped he could mitigate conflicts between large and small cooperatives and enterprises with his financial expertise.
Sissoko would have the unfortunate task of being Chairman during the 2008 Global Recession. Mali’s gdp growth fell to an all time low 1%. Many local small businesses would; however, feel a resurgence in power. The megacooperatives who had been harder by the recession found their position within Mali slightly give way to more breathing from for local businesses who continued to sell within Mali or to nearby neighboring countries. Once again as the crisis heightened the government adopted a neutral policy, letting the market operate and conflict as it had.
This backfired immensely for not only the economy, but the entire government. Youth radicals who had grown up during the Sankara era and been educated and raised by the various youth groups struck out this government inaction. Many young people themselves had been locked out of forming their own enterprises and cooperatives by megacooperative intimidation and manipulative business practices. These young radicals formed what was called the Forth Wave or Neo-Sankarists would be those inspired by his policies of reformism and equality.
In the 2009 council elections, the so called status quo centrist faction saw its control over the council plummet as their wide support base abandoned them in mass for more radical and young politicians. The 500 seat council was almost completely taken over by the Fourth Wave. Sankara after only having left office 10 years earlier saw his policies and politics vindicated by a new political movement. With the fall of the attempted status quo degradation of socialist values a new government headed by the first female leader of the Federation, Kamissa Camara the future appeared to be full speed ahead for Mali
Afterthought: One post down one more to go and it’s all over. Thanks I do appreciate everyone reading my first timeline.
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Unfortunately outside of West Africa I’m afraid you’re starting to depart from my general wheelhouse. Many of the issues these African nations face are ethnic conflicts in nature and just the small boost in trade and economics won’t settle those conflicts. I had Nigeria and Liberia both still have their civil wars because they are ethnic crisis in nature. The rest of West and north West Africa are economically linked and tied together meaning you’d see higher gdp’s and living standards, as Mali buys its resources from its neighbors that it can’t make itself. Though, Mali would still be the big industrial and agricultural breadbasket of the region. I’ll probably do a final stats looking at Mali’s production and living but I think after that my timeline will be over.
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Anyways two posts left. 2010-modern day, and then just one with all the different stats and stuff of Mali, after that I will go back into having never posted.
Part 18: General Stats of Mali
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GENERAL STATS OF MALI
POPULATION
•Population: 70 Million
•Population Growth Rate: 1.48%
•Age Dependency Ration: 65% of working age population
•Urban Population: 51% of total population
•Infant Mortality: 12.1 per 1000 live births
•Life Expectancy at Birth: 77 Years
•Age Distribution:
8% Age 65+
62% Age 15-64
30% Below 15
•Literacy Rates: 94%
•School Enrollment Value: 120
•Tertiary Education Rates: 20%
ECONOMY
•GDP Nominal: 630 Billion
•GDP Nominal Per Capita: 9000
•GDP PPP: 1.4 Trillion
•GDP PPP Per Capita: 20,000
•Unemployment Rate: 6.4%
•Inflation Rate: 2.5%
•Main Import Partner: USA
•Main Export Partner: India
•Poverty Rates: 5.5%
ENERGY
•Electricity: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas and
other non renewable: 55%
Nuclear Energy: 20%
Green Energy: 25%
•Oil Production: 200 Thousand Barrels per Day
•Natural Gas: 100 Thousand Barrels per day
TECHNOLOGY
•Airports: 150
•Automobile Owners: 50% of
population
•Cellular Telephone Users: 90%
•Access to Electricity: 93.5% of population
•Access to Internet: 67% of population
Agriculture:
•49% of population employed
•Crops:
-Corn (10th largest producer)
-Millet (2nd largest producer)
-Sorghum (8th largest producer)
-Wheat (15th largest producer)
-Peanuts (4th largest producer)
-Palm Oil (6th largest producer)
-Cotton (6th largest)
-Coffee (7th largest)
-Chicken/Poultry (10th largest producer)
-Sugar (6th largest producer)
-Yams (3rd largest Producer)
-Cassava (10th largest producer)
-Cashews (3rd largest producer)
-Plantains (8th largest producer)
-Cowpeas (2nd Largest Producer)
-Sesame Seed (8th Largest Producer)
-Okra (3rd largest producer)
-Shea Nuts (1st largest producer)
-Fonio (2nd largest producer)
-Cows/Beef (15th Largest Producer)
-Sheep/Mutton (5th Largest Producer)
-Goat (2nd largest producer)
-Natural Rubber (6th largest producer)
-Camels (7th largest producer)
Natural Resources:
-Petroleum (25th largest producer)
-Natural gas (30th largest producer)
-Iron (15th largest producer)
-Copper (27th largest producer)
-Uranium (5th largest producer)
-Salt (40th largest producer)
-Gold (9th largest producer)
-Coal (40th largest producer)
-Phosphate (15th largest producer)
-Limestone (25th largest producer)
-Thorium (30th largest producer)
-Diamond (25th largest producer)
-Zinc (25th largest producer)
-Titanium (7th largest producer)
-Silver (40th largest producer)
-Tin (14th largest producer)
-Aluminum (39th largest producer)
-Platinum (20th largest producer)
-Barite (20th largest producer)
-Bauxite (10th largest producer)
-Feldspar (47th largest producer)
-Graphite (13th largest producer)
-Gypsum (37th largest producer)
-Cement (25th largest producer)
-Sand and Gravel (40th largest producer)
-Kaolin (26th largest producer)
-Lead (39th largest producer)
-Magnesium (21st largest producer)
-Pumice (15th largest producer)
-Steel (25th largest producer)
-Soda Ash (23rd largest producer)
-Talc (24th largest producer)
-Minor amounts of Tungsten, Vermiculite, Wollastonite, Zirconium, Palladium, and Vanadium.
Afterthought: So here’s a general look at Mali’s stats the agriculture and natural resources is just based on adding up the production numbers of all the countries Mali encompasses. Next post will probably be tomorrow. Thanks!
POPULATION
•Population: 70 Million
•Population Growth Rate: 1.48%
•Age Dependency Ration: 65% of working age population
•Urban Population: 51% of total population
•Infant Mortality: 12.1 per 1000 live births
•Life Expectancy at Birth: 77 Years
•Age Distribution:
8% Age 65+
62% Age 15-64
30% Below 15
•Literacy Rates: 94%
•School Enrollment Value: 120
•Tertiary Education Rates: 20%
ECONOMY
•GDP Nominal: 630 Billion
•GDP Nominal Per Capita: 9000
•GDP PPP: 1.4 Trillion
•GDP PPP Per Capita: 20,000
•Unemployment Rate: 6.4%
•Inflation Rate: 2.5%
•Main Import Partner: USA
•Main Export Partner: India
•Poverty Rates: 5.5%
ENERGY
•Electricity: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas and
other non renewable: 55%
Nuclear Energy: 20%
Green Energy: 25%
•Oil Production: 200 Thousand Barrels per Day
•Natural Gas: 100 Thousand Barrels per day
TECHNOLOGY
•Airports: 150
•Automobile Owners: 50% of
population
•Cellular Telephone Users: 90%
•Access to Electricity: 93.5% of population
•Access to Internet: 67% of population
Agriculture:
•49% of population employed
•Crops:
-Corn (10th largest producer)
-Millet (2nd largest producer)
-Sorghum (8th largest producer)
-Wheat (15th largest producer)
-Peanuts (4th largest producer)
-Palm Oil (6th largest producer)
-Cotton (6th largest)
-Coffee (7th largest)
-Chicken/Poultry (10th largest producer)
-Sugar (6th largest producer)
-Yams (3rd largest Producer)
-Cassava (10th largest producer)
-Cashews (3rd largest producer)
-Plantains (8th largest producer)
-Cowpeas (2nd Largest Producer)
-Sesame Seed (8th Largest Producer)
-Okra (3rd largest producer)
-Shea Nuts (1st largest producer)
-Fonio (2nd largest producer)
-Cows/Beef (15th Largest Producer)
-Sheep/Mutton (5th Largest Producer)
-Goat (2nd largest producer)
-Natural Rubber (6th largest producer)
-Camels (7th largest producer)
Natural Resources:
-Petroleum (25th largest producer)
-Natural gas (30th largest producer)
-Iron (15th largest producer)
-Copper (27th largest producer)
-Uranium (5th largest producer)
-Salt (40th largest producer)
-Gold (9th largest producer)
-Coal (40th largest producer)
-Phosphate (15th largest producer)
-Limestone (25th largest producer)
-Thorium (30th largest producer)
-Diamond (25th largest producer)
-Zinc (25th largest producer)
-Titanium (7th largest producer)
-Silver (40th largest producer)
-Tin (14th largest producer)
-Aluminum (39th largest producer)
-Platinum (20th largest producer)
-Barite (20th largest producer)
-Bauxite (10th largest producer)
-Feldspar (47th largest producer)
-Graphite (13th largest producer)
-Gypsum (37th largest producer)
-Cement (25th largest producer)
-Sand and Gravel (40th largest producer)
-Kaolin (26th largest producer)
-Lead (39th largest producer)
-Magnesium (21st largest producer)
-Pumice (15th largest producer)
-Steel (25th largest producer)
-Soda Ash (23rd largest producer)
-Talc (24th largest producer)
-Minor amounts of Tungsten, Vermiculite, Wollastonite, Zirconium, Palladium, and Vanadium.
Afterthought: So here’s a general look at Mali’s stats the agriculture and natural resources is just based on adding up the production numbers of all the countries Mali encompasses. Next post will probably be tomorrow. Thanks!
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Then how's the Malian-Chinese relationship? And Chinese penetration, or attempts, of the corporate & mining sector?
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Mali has more deep ties to the West and India over China. So while of course these ties will exist and be expanding as China becomes the number one great power, by no means do I see China being the biggest player within Mali or West Africa.
If GDP Nominal is $9,000 per capita (which is fine estimate), PPP in a socialist West African country is going to be $15,000-$20,000 easy. (For comparison, Libya was over $30,000 PPP before the Civil War).
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Feel like the only question I don’t have an answer for is how much is one let’s just say Malian Currency (called a Wari, which is the Bambara word for money) to a USD.
I’m thinking either
1 USD = 139 Wari’s (same as Algeria)
Or
1 USD = 103 War’s (similar to Serbia, and probably what I’ll go with)
I’m thinking either
1 USD = 139 Wari’s (same as Algeria)
Or
1 USD = 103 War’s (similar to Serbia, and probably what I’ll go with)
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Part 19: The End
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2010-2020
Mali Up to the Modern Day
Chairwomen Kamissa Camara was selected by the Fourth Wave, and numerous other social liberal factions to be the first female leader of Mali. At 27 she was also the second youngest leader in Mali after Sankara himself. She had served as a foreign affairs analyst to Chairman N'Guessan, and minister of digital planning to Chairman Sissoko. She was a reformist and modernist within Mali and would pave new reforms for the state.
There was the matter of the economy and megacooperatives. Camara would institute Anti-Trust Laws for the first time in Malian history. The Malian Federal Trades Commission as a joint arm of the Economic Union and Federal Council would be founded to deal with preventing the formation of trusts and monopolies.
Anti Trust Laws of Mali:
I. has the power to regulate behaviour of large firms it claims to be abusing their dominant position or market power as well as, preventing firms from gaining the position within the market structure enables them to behave abusively in the first place. Mergers that have a “community dimension” in order for a merger to be declared compatible with the common market, it must not create or strengthen a dominant position where it could affect competition.
II. The MFTC would be able to penalize cooperatives abusing their positions of power:
(a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions;
(b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers;
(c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;
(d) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts."
III. Some practices forbidden by the government would include:
•Exclusive dealing agreements
Whereby a customer is required to purchase all or most of a particular type of good or service from a dominant supplier and is prevented from buying from others.
•Granting of exclusivity rebates
Purported loyalty schemes that are equivalent in effect to exclusive dealing agreements.
•Tying one product to the sale of another, thereby restricting consumer choice.
•Bundling, similar to tying, whereby a supplier will only supply its products in a bundle with one or more other products.
•Margin squeezing vertical practices that have the effect of excluding downstream competitors.
•Refusing to license intellectual property rights whereby a dominant firm holding patented rights refuses to license those rights to others.
•Refusal to supply a competitor with a good or service, often in a bid to drive them out of the market.
•Predatory pricing where a dominant firm deliberately reduces prices to loss-making levels in order to force competitors out of the market.
•Price discrimination arbitrarily charging some market participants higher prices that are unconnected to the actual costs of supplying the goods or services.
•leveraging a dominant position by way of self-preferencing
Following this several landmark cases would see an American subsidiary cooperative Chevron-Taudeni and United Steel Cooperative would see both companies broken up into smaller pieces, and excluded from remerging in the future. This would open the market to many smaller groups, including even other nations, South Africa, Italy, and India would make inroads into the opening markets of Mali. The government would also in court challenge the idea of businesses owning mercenaries within Mali. The courts would rule in favor of the government and a massive scale back of scope, power, and jurisdiction of mercenaries within the northern territories.
The next part of equalizing the economy would come in the form of various government acts, the National Small Business Protections Act, in which the government would offer loans, grants, low cost legal advice, and even mentoring for small private enterprises, and small cooperatives. The next would be the Tax Simplification Act, which would make starting up and navigating the tax codes and bureaucracy of Mali easy and able to be completed in a few hours. Finally, the Tax Forgiveness Act would allow various tax concessions including a 7% discount on taxes for individuals in self-employed positions or in small cooperatives.
The last step of the economic reform plan would include social campaigns. The government would encourage localism within communities with the Community Supporter Agriculture plan being piloted in many major cities. Citizens would pay farmers a certain amount of money and be granted a share of their food crop at the end of the harvest, they would even be encouraged to pick which ones they wanted. This would also be used a bridge between farmer and city dweller, and the young and old.
Another part of the Fourth Wave platform was anti-corruption. It was believed that while Sankara was a great leader he had let corruption slide, and this only heightened in the later years after his departure. The Malian Anti-Corruption Act would see fines, jail time, and hard labor assigned to those caught within the act of corruption. An independent watchdog agency and increased media allowance would also foster government transparency and encourage the fostering of good governance within Mali. Also, a wage reform act would see pay adjusted for federal workers to the new realities of the Malian economy. With acceptable wages corruption would further be disincentivized.
2013 would signal the scaling down of the Boko Haram conflict with numerous of their leaders killed or captured, the Nigerian, Chadian and Malian Coalition declared victory. While there would still be low level conflict and isolated pockets that would have to be removed with force, the armies of the three nations would begin to be scaled back, and many refugees sent back to their respective lands, though Mali would make extra effort to recruit and naturalize those with an education who may be useful.
2020 would bring a new challenge to Mali, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic would ravage the global economy, as Mali’s economy tumbled to a sluggish 2% growth rate the lowest it had been since the 2008 recession. The government would take precautionary measures buying masks, and other medical supplies. This is when the Sankara reforms would come into their own. However, surprisingly Mali would not be as affected by the global pandemic like most African nations had much lower transmission rates. The emergence of the 2021 Omicron variant would present a new challenge to the government as it slowly began to spread around Africa.
Thus, our story closes on The Socialist Federal Republic of Mali. The largest economy in Africa and one of her largest nations. Democratic and socialist the Malian nation represented the burning flame of African socialism, and libertarian socialism in general. For all of Africa’s faults and lingering damage of colonialism a better future was at the end of the tunnel especially for those in West Africa.
Afterthought: So there we go story’s over. Thanks to everyone who read my story, and liked or provided any comments or feedback. Have a good day and be good to eachother.
Mali Up to the Modern Day
Chairwomen Kamissa Camara was selected by the Fourth Wave, and numerous other social liberal factions to be the first female leader of Mali. At 27 she was also the second youngest leader in Mali after Sankara himself. She had served as a foreign affairs analyst to Chairman N'Guessan, and minister of digital planning to Chairman Sissoko. She was a reformist and modernist within Mali and would pave new reforms for the state.
There was the matter of the economy and megacooperatives. Camara would institute Anti-Trust Laws for the first time in Malian history. The Malian Federal Trades Commission as a joint arm of the Economic Union and Federal Council would be founded to deal with preventing the formation of trusts and monopolies.
Anti Trust Laws of Mali:
I. has the power to regulate behaviour of large firms it claims to be abusing their dominant position or market power as well as, preventing firms from gaining the position within the market structure enables them to behave abusively in the first place. Mergers that have a “community dimension” in order for a merger to be declared compatible with the common market, it must not create or strengthen a dominant position where it could affect competition.
II. The MFTC would be able to penalize cooperatives abusing their positions of power:
(a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions;
(b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers;
(c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;
(d) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts."
III. Some practices forbidden by the government would include:
•Exclusive dealing agreements
Whereby a customer is required to purchase all or most of a particular type of good or service from a dominant supplier and is prevented from buying from others.
•Granting of exclusivity rebates
Purported loyalty schemes that are equivalent in effect to exclusive dealing agreements.
•Tying one product to the sale of another, thereby restricting consumer choice.
•Bundling, similar to tying, whereby a supplier will only supply its products in a bundle with one or more other products.
•Margin squeezing vertical practices that have the effect of excluding downstream competitors.
•Refusing to license intellectual property rights whereby a dominant firm holding patented rights refuses to license those rights to others.
•Refusal to supply a competitor with a good or service, often in a bid to drive them out of the market.
•Predatory pricing where a dominant firm deliberately reduces prices to loss-making levels in order to force competitors out of the market.
•Price discrimination arbitrarily charging some market participants higher prices that are unconnected to the actual costs of supplying the goods or services.
•leveraging a dominant position by way of self-preferencing
Following this several landmark cases would see an American subsidiary cooperative Chevron-Taudeni and United Steel Cooperative would see both companies broken up into smaller pieces, and excluded from remerging in the future. This would open the market to many smaller groups, including even other nations, South Africa, Italy, and India would make inroads into the opening markets of Mali. The government would also in court challenge the idea of businesses owning mercenaries within Mali. The courts would rule in favor of the government and a massive scale back of scope, power, and jurisdiction of mercenaries within the northern territories.
The next part of equalizing the economy would come in the form of various government acts, the National Small Business Protections Act, in which the government would offer loans, grants, low cost legal advice, and even mentoring for small private enterprises, and small cooperatives. The next would be the Tax Simplification Act, which would make starting up and navigating the tax codes and bureaucracy of Mali easy and able to be completed in a few hours. Finally, the Tax Forgiveness Act would allow various tax concessions including a 7% discount on taxes for individuals in self-employed positions or in small cooperatives.
The last step of the economic reform plan would include social campaigns. The government would encourage localism within communities with the Community Supporter Agriculture plan being piloted in many major cities. Citizens would pay farmers a certain amount of money and be granted a share of their food crop at the end of the harvest, they would even be encouraged to pick which ones they wanted. This would also be used a bridge between farmer and city dweller, and the young and old.
Another part of the Fourth Wave platform was anti-corruption. It was believed that while Sankara was a great leader he had let corruption slide, and this only heightened in the later years after his departure. The Malian Anti-Corruption Act would see fines, jail time, and hard labor assigned to those caught within the act of corruption. An independent watchdog agency and increased media allowance would also foster government transparency and encourage the fostering of good governance within Mali. Also, a wage reform act would see pay adjusted for federal workers to the new realities of the Malian economy. With acceptable wages corruption would further be disincentivized.
2013 would signal the scaling down of the Boko Haram conflict with numerous of their leaders killed or captured, the Nigerian, Chadian and Malian Coalition declared victory. While there would still be low level conflict and isolated pockets that would have to be removed with force, the armies of the three nations would begin to be scaled back, and many refugees sent back to their respective lands, though Mali would make extra effort to recruit and naturalize those with an education who may be useful.
2020 would bring a new challenge to Mali, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic would ravage the global economy, as Mali’s economy tumbled to a sluggish 2% growth rate the lowest it had been since the 2008 recession. The government would take precautionary measures buying masks, and other medical supplies. This is when the Sankara reforms would come into their own. However, surprisingly Mali would not be as affected by the global pandemic like most African nations had much lower transmission rates. The emergence of the 2021 Omicron variant would present a new challenge to the government as it slowly began to spread around Africa.
Thus, our story closes on The Socialist Federal Republic of Mali. The largest economy in Africa and one of her largest nations. Democratic and socialist the Malian nation represented the burning flame of African socialism, and libertarian socialism in general. For all of Africa’s faults and lingering damage of colonialism a better future was at the end of the tunnel especially for those in West Africa.
Afterthought: So there we go story’s over. Thanks to everyone who read my story, and liked or provided any comments or feedback. Have a good day and be good to eachother.