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Lady Dorothy Mills trailblazed her own path as a explorer becoming the first English women in Timbuktu as well as travelling ...

He then suggested that the Yoruba Gbadamosi is more faithful to what he thinks is the original form of the name than the ...

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

Another of Mali's festivals -- The Festival in the Desert outside Timbuktu -- once attracted thousands of visitors, but it has not been held since 2012 when jihadists entered the ancient city.

There is magic in the desert. There is wisdom in the desert. And sometimes, if you know where to look, there is cold beer in the desert.

Why, that would have to be Mali, where you find Timbuktu, the fabled Niger River ... It’s watching a blacksmith ply his ancient art, catching the banter at the well between two women gathering ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa. Tens ...