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|subdivision_name1 = [[Sikasso Region]]
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|subdivision_name2 = [[Koutiala Cercle]]
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|subdivision_name3 = [[Songoua]]
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'''Sirakélé ''' is a village and seat of the [[Songoua|commune of Songoua]] in the [[Koutiala Cercle|Cercle of Koutiala]] in the [[Sikasso Region]] of southern [[Mali]].<ref>{{citation | title=Communes de la Région de Sikasso | publisher= Ministère de l’administration territoriale et des collectivités locales, République du Mali | url=http://www.matcl.gov.ml/pdf/ComRegSikasso.pdf | language=French | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005558/http://www.matcl.gov.ml/pdf/ComRegSikasso.pdf | archive-date=3 December 2013 | url-status=live }}.</ref> The village is 15 km north of [[Koutiala]].

The town has both an elementary and middle school. The mayor's name is Yaya Traore.

In partnership with the women's and men's [[agricultural cooperative]]s in Sirakele, the [[World Vegetable Center|World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)]] and [[International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics|ICRISAT]] lead trainings and do surveys on nutrition and seed (primarily millet and sorghum) research. To complete these projects, they often partner with the Koutiala office of Malian Association for Food Security and Sovereignty (AMASSA), a branch of the French NGO [[Afrique verte|Afrique Verte]].

== History ==
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Twee jonge ossen worden getraind in het trekken van een ploeg TMnr 20016782.jpg|thumb|A farmer in Sirakélé, 1985]]
The French explorer [[René Caillié]] stopped at Sirakélé on 17 February 1828 on his journey to [[Timbuktu]]. He was travelling with a caravan transporting [[kola nut]]s to [[Djenné]]. In his book ''Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo'' published in 1830, he refers to the village as Saraclé.{{sfn|Viguier|2008|p=59}} Caillié wrote:
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At eleven o'clock we stopped at Saraclé, a little walled village, having a very well supplied market. At the entrance of the village I observed a well: the soil in which it was dug, consisted of greyish earth, mixed with sand and gravel. The well was from fifteen to eighteen feet in depth, and the water it contained clear and pleasant to the taste. It had no enclosure, and near to it was a great hole, into which the negresses throw the water in which they wash their clothes. Although this water was very dirty, both men and women washed their faces in it every morning; and many persons belonging to our company followed their example.{{sfn|Caillié|1830|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gPMTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA423 423-424]}}</blockquote>

== Geography ==
Sirakélé is located at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/12%C2%B030'50.0%22N+5%C2%B028'40.0%22W/@12.5150946,-5.4779108,384m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d12.5138889!4d-5.4777778 12°30'50" N, 5°28'40"W.]

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book | last=Caillié | first=René | title=Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828 (Volume 1) | publisher=Colburn & Bentley |location=London | year=1830 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gPMTAAAAIAAJ }}
*{{cite book| last=Viguier | first=Pierre | year=2008 | title=Sur les Traces de René Caillié: Le Mali de 1828 Revisité | publisher=Quae | place=Versailles, France | isbn=978-2-7592-0271-3 }}.

{{Communes of the Sikasso Region}}

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[[Category:Populated places in Sikasso Region]]

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