What can Pygmme do?

Probably nothing, perhaps he should go to the U.S. embassy, if the country has one and ask what the U.S. military is doing in his country, I would suspect more hegemonic fiddling, like the rest of the world.

A mysterious fatal crash offers a rare look at the growing U.S. commando presence in Mali, - "In the pre-dawn darkness, a Toyota Land Cruiser skidded off a bridge in North Africa (Mali) in the spring, plunging into the Niger River. When rescuers arrived, they found the bodies of three U.S. Army commandos — alongside three dead women."

Given the inability of the Pentagon to keep a lid on it's growing need to interfere in just about every geopolitical pocket on this globe, I would suspect that the presence of U.S. forces is an ominous sign of further warmongering, giving little hope to Pygmme and any chance he might live a life that he and his family are entitled to.

Sad, but a growing world-wide trend, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

A sad place indeed, and that is nothing new. What the author omits to mention is that an average of more than five siblings is normal for all lads like Pygmme in Mali (Its women have a total fertility rate 6.3); and, if the present rate of population increase continues, in 27 years time the next generation will be twice as many as now.
The author notes that the land is enduring a “drought” (long dry periods are normal for sub-saharan Africa), but chooses to sidestep mention of the ever-increasing numbers which depend upon its productivity.

Geoff: your comment is on the mark. The author of this article appears not to consider how the destabilization in Mali is directly linked to NATO's intervention in Libya, itself a direct consequence of NATO's ambitions for an expanded presence in Africa. Gadaffi's body was barely cold when the US was announcing plans for an expanded African presence, something that Gadaffi had resolutely opposed.

What we are witnessing is a carrying out of a well-established plan for world wide US hegemony and it is naive to ignore what is happening, even though the msm seem determined to ignore the geo-political implications of the daily news.