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April 29, 2015 REAL ESTATE

'Guerrilla gardening' takes root in hunger-hit Mali – TRFN

By Chris Arsenault BAMAKO, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On the green banks of the Niger River in downtown Bamako alongside heavily guarded foreign hotels, a group of urban farmers busily weed and water vegetables on some of Mali’s prime real-estate. In North America and Europe “guerrilla gardening” usually means an act of political protest against industrialised food production or a lack of green space but in Bamako and across

April 29, 2015 REAL ESTATE

'Guerrilla gardening' takes root in hunger-hit Mali

By Chris Arsenault BAMAKO, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On the green banks of the Niger River in downtown Bamako alongside heavily guarded foreign hotels, a group of urban farmers busily weed and water vegetables on some of Mali’s prime real-estate. In North America and Europe “guerrilla gardening” usually means an act of political protest against industrialized food production or a lack of green space but in Bamako and across

April 29, 2015 SILVER (MSM)

Wednesday, April 29: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — After selling down a few bucks in Far East trading early on Tuesday morning, the gold price traded flat until it began to develop a positive bias shortly after 9 a.m. in London.  Then the price popped seven bucks or so at the p.m. gold fix—and then inched higher from there, with the high tick coming minutes before 2 p.m. in electronic trading in New York.