Mali
… Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is … by Algeria, on the east by Niger and Burkina Faso, on the south by Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea, and on the west by Senegal … soils outside the Niger valley in Mali are poor. In the south, ferruginous (iron-bearing) soils are shallow and form …