Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu to 10 ... BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.
He wanted to show me what he said was the first documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa ... A month after I left Timbuktu, Mali officials, under pressure from the French ...
These West African kingdoms and empires developed ... expanding into the important trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Mali became famous for its trade in gold and the empire became incredibly ...
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 ...
As Africa’s Sahel region has replaced the Middle East as the epicenter of jihadism, young men are flocking to the cause. They ...
Ivory Coast became the latest African nation to expel French troops, taking control of the last remaining French military ...
The accident took place in an open-pit area people had gone into in search of gold. Informal mining is a common and dangerous ...