Question: How many legislative assemblies are  held each year?
Answer: two regular sessions

Question: Who is considered head of government and assigns the council of ministers?
Answer: prime minister

Question: What is Mali's highest court?
Answer: Supreme Court

Question: What controls do the supreme court have?
Answer: both judicial and administrative powers

Question: Constitutional Court provides what type of review of legislative acts?
Answer: judicial review

Question: Constitutional Court also serves as what type of arbiter?
Answer: election

Question: Local disputes in rural areas are usually handled by what individuals?
Answer: village chiefs and elders

Question: In what year did Mali start economic changes?
Answer: 1988

Question: Mali signed agreements with what to parties that began their economic changes?
Answer: World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

Question: In what years did Mali restructure public enterprises?
Answer: 1988 to 1996

Question: How many enterprises have been made completely private since the agreement?
Answer: sixteen enterprises

Question: How many companies were completely liquidated?
Answer: 20

Question: In 2007 what percent of people were 12 and under?
Answer: 48

Question: What was the total fertility rate per woman as of 2012?
Answer: 6.4 children

Question: In 2007 what was the death rate per 1000 people?
Answer: 16.5

Question: Mali has one of the highest rates of what type of mortality?
Answer: infant

Question: For both men and women average life expectancy is how many years?
Answer: 53.06

Question: Roughly how many Malians are descendants of slaves?
Answer: 800,000

Question: What is the estimate of current Mali enslavement?
Answer: 200,000

Question: What group of people were known to keep Malian salves into the 20th century?
Answer: Arabic population

Question: The darker skinned Bella people are also refereed to as what name?
Answer: Tamasheq

Question: What region of the country is historical slavery well known?
Answer: far north

Question: Ethnic tension are between what two groups of people?
Answer: Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs

Question: Radical Islam and the Tuaregs are both considered problematic according to whom?
Answer: Malian government

Question: What group of people are trying to establish sharia law?
Answer: radical Islamists

Question: What type of hereditary relationships still exist today?
Answer: servitude and bondage

Question: Songhai and Tuaregs both complain about what same issue towards each other?
Answer: discrimination

Question: What four main health problems do the Malian people currently have?
Answer: poverty, malnutrition, and inadequate hygiene and sanitation

Question: How does Malian Health and development rank globally?
Answer: among the worst in the world

Question: As of 2012 50.3 years is considered the Malian peoples averages of what statistic?
Answer: Life expectancy

Question: In 2000 what percentage of the population had access to safe drinking water?
Answer: 62–65

Question: In 2000 roughly how much of the population had access to sanitation services?
Answer: 69

Question: What does ICRISTAT stand for?
Answer: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

Question: What types of efforts to aid in health problems have been made?
Answer: improve nutrition

Question: The local communities have accepted equinut because it is similar to what native recipe?
Answer: recipe di-dèguè

Question: ICRISTAT had success in teaching women how to make what product of nutritional value?
Answer: equinut

Question: What ingredients are in both the traditional and nutritional version of this dish?
Answer: peanut paste, honey and millet or rice flour

Question: What are the two main prevalent infectious diseases of Mali?
Answer: cholera and tuberculosis

Question: what arthropod born disease has plagued the nation?
Answer: Malaria

Question: According to the data from 2001 to 2006 what percent of female genitalia are mutilated?
Answer: 85–91

Question: What Sexually transmitted disease afflicts roughly 1.9 percent of the population?
Answer: HIV/AIDS

Question: Malians suffer from malnutrition and low rates of what type of medical need?
Answer: immunization

Question: What is the translation or meaning of a griot?
Answer: Keepers of Memories

Question: Aside from music what other activity plays a significant role in culture?
Answer: Dance

Question: What type of garment or accessory is traditionally worn at some of the dances held?
Answer: mask

Question: What is the name of the musician that was a part of the roots and was also a blues guitarist?
Answer: Ali Farka Touré

Question: What is a well known Afro-pop artist?
Answer: Salif Keita

Question: What is the purpose of an NPO?
Answer: A nonprofit organization (NPO, also known as a non-business entity) is an organization whose purposes are other than making a profit.

Question: What does an NPO do with it's surplus income?
Answer: In economic terms, a nonprofit organization uses its surplus revenues to further achieve its purpose or mission

Question: What is the constraint's upon an NPO's financial distributions called?
Answer: the distribution constraint

Question: What is the definition of a non-profit organization?
Answer: purposes are other than making a profit

Question: What is an NPO also known as?
Answer: non-business entity

Question: What is the purpose of an NPO?
Answer: furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view

Question: What does a non-profit do with the money it takes in, instead of using it for a profit?
Answer: further achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit

Question: What is it called when a non-profit uses it's money as it should?
Answer: distribution constraint

Question: What types of organizations are NPOs usually associated with?
Answer: charitable

Question: Who does an NPO usually serve?
Answer: member-serving or community-serving

Question: What do NPOs that center around community usually focus on?
Answer: providing services to the community in general, either globally or locally

Question: What are member serving NPOs really focused on?
Answer: by directly supporting them

Question: What are community serving NPOs focused on?
Answer: a helping service for fellow citizens

Question: How does an NPO have to handle surplus money?
Answer: they must be retained by the organization for its self-preservation, expansion, or plans

Question: Who makes most of the decisions for an NPO?
Answer: controlling members or a board of directors

Question: How do NPOs handle staffing?
Answer: Many have paid staff including management, whereas others employ unpaid volunteers and even executives who work with or without compensation

Question: What are token fees used for?
Answer: to meet legal requirements for establishing a contract between the executive and the organization

Question: How are charity or service NPOs usually organized?
Answer: profit corporation or as a trust, a cooperative, or they exist informally

Question: What type of organization behaves much like a foundation?
Answer: a supporting organization

Question:  What is a major function of a foundation?
Answer: giving value to the groups of people they administer to

Question: What are the two top types of NPOs?
Answer: membership and board-only

Question: How is a membership organization run?
Answer: elects the board and has regular meetings and the power to amend the bylaws

Question: How is a board only organization run?
Answer: self-selected board, and a membership whose powers are limited to those delegated to it by the board

Question: What is a further constraint of an NPO, depending on their legal structure?
Answer: financial benefit as far as distribution of profit to its members/directors is concerned