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.

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

Stein joined Kouyaté, who had relocated to America, in a journey back to Mali and Guinea. There, Stein would come to understand a centuries-old tradition and become one of the first foreign ...

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 ...

ARTS SCENE THREATENED Mali is a renowned hub of culture in the region, having hosted several important festivals on the international arts circuit. "Mali is a global cultural powerhouse," said the ...

Security sector reforms that began well before the country’s two coups still suffer from a lack of effective civil society ...

“Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata overthrew ... known as the ‘Sosso-Bala,’ survives in Kouyaté’s father’s home village of Niagassola, on the Mali-Guinea border. In 2001, the ...