Photo journal: Mali cattle crossings


Booby prize

A competition also takes place to choose the herdsmen who have the fattest cattle.

There are prizes for the winners and they are the stars of the day.

The herdsmen who are deemed to have done the worst job also get a prize – a single peanut.

By Martin Vogl, BBC News, Mali

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