Currently I'm talking to some guys from the wikimedia foundation which try to widen the use of wikipedia in Bamako/Mali.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants/wm_ch/wikipedia_bamako

They might be able to send someone to Bamako in January. I suggested to do a walkingpapers ( http://www.walkingpapers.org ) mapping party there, so that a lot of POIs and streetnames etc. can be added without an actual need for a GPS. I think then the OSM community can add this information to the database.

Some other suggestions?

This is great news,
Christian