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 ...

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 ...

Other fighters piled in. Behind the wheel, he followed another pickup and two motorcycles, racing along desert backroads in Mali’s Timbuktu region and stopping only when he saw about half a ...

About 20 people were killed in Mali. A separatist rebel group blamed Mali soldiers and Wagner mercenaries for the killings. The Mali army declined to comment. Around 20 people were killed in northern ...