Mercenaries with Russia’s Wagner Group, fighting alongside Malian soldiers, have assaulted women, massacred civilians and ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, is deemed the richest man in history, with wealth so vast that historians struggle to quantify it accurately.

Fighting alongside Malian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries have massacred civilians and burned their villages in northern Mali, ...

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

Environment and geography can present challenging questions, but sometimes we make them harder with simple mistakes. In our ...

Trying to bring peace to one of the earth's most inhospitable and lawless places ...

But that vibrant scene is under threat. 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 ...

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 ...

The violence, which started in Mali in 2012 and has now extended to ... forms of local demands," said Bakary Sambe, director of the Timbuktu Institute in Dakar. Also read: Islamic Centre of ...

That most “desert” of deserts? Why, that would have to be Mali, where you find Timbuktu, the fabled Niger River, the mud mosques of Djenne and the salt trains of the Sahara. I once had the ...