the centre of trade and culture. News of wealth and learning spread far and wide. Traders and scholars from Europe, the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into ...

After years of serving as Mali's minister of the environment, Aida M'bo now spends her time planting trees in a fight that many in the arid West African country acknowledge they are losing.

A 2015 peace deal with Tuareg separatists has floundered since the 2020 coup and the junta's recent expulsion of UN peacekeepers Fierce fighting has broken out in northern Mali with Tuareg rebels ...

Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...

The hunting society accused of a massacre More about Mali Both buildings and cultural objects have been lost resulting in the "deterioration of cultural practices and traditions of the Dogon ...