Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Tens of thousands of people from Mali and elsewhere in the region flock ... "We have the most beautiful stories, we have beautiful sites... It is a reservoir. It is more important than gold ...

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...