Bamako, Mali

The European Union (EU) has opened its first multi-million dollar immigration centre in West Africa, but returnee migrants told IRIN the Bamako...

Analysts say despite the government's efforts to secure the north through its clampdown of a militia accused of masterminding recent Tuareg killings,...

Sidiki Doumba, journalist with Les Echos, a Bamako-based independent newspaper was on September 20, 2008 arrested and detained overnight at a police...

Mali has become an established transit route for weapons heading from West Africa’s increasingly peaceful coastal states to active conflicts in West...

After years of delays the Mali national cotton company, Malian Company for Textile Development (CMDT), is on the verge of privatisation with bids for...

In 2000 the Malian government signed up to UN Education for All goals to help 50 percent more adults become literate by 2015, but eight years on...

Seyba Traoré, aged 11, and his brother Moumini, 9, set out each morning with big bags slung over their shoulders to sort through the capital’s many...

Cut-price cooking oil used in most Malian households has been found to contain gossypol, a toxic substance that is known to cause sterility, cancer...

Habib Koité comes from a great line of Malian Khassonké jalis. He studied music for four years at the National Institute of Arts (NIA) in Bamako,...

After months of pleas to authorities from village leaders, the Malian and Guinean governments say they will take steps to prevent further violence...