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’s army says it’s investigating soldiers who were accused by separatist Tuareg rebels of killing at least 24 civilians ...

A Tuareg-dominated rebel alliance in northern Mali accused Malian soldiers, accompanied by Russian Wagner mercenaries, of killing 24 civilians travelling north to Algeria from the city of Gao, as the ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well ...

Trailblazer of African cinema was the winner of the jury’s prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his film, Yeelen.

BAMAKO, Mali — A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kéniéba district where the accident ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... In January, at least 10 people died in a landslide at a goldmine in southern Mali and many went missing, most of them women ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's army said it's investigating soldiers who were accused by separatist Tuareg rebels of killing at least 24 civilians earlier this week, in a rare probe of human rights ...

Mali, led by a military junta, has for more than a decade battled jihadist groups allied to Islamic State and al Qaeda while grappling with a much longer history of Tuareg-led rebellion in the north.