Mali, Africa

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...

Kalifan Keita is a peasant farmer with no medical education, salary or transport other than a wobbly bicycle, yet he is achieving in Mali what the...

When Nouhoum Sangaré left his wife, three children and village in southern Mali for the capital Bamako 240km away, he expected to find stable work...

In principle, the 81mm of rain that drenched the mud walled houses and bone dry fields in this town on 26 July should not have posed a major...

A spate of kidnappings and attacks by militias in northern Mali and Niger has forced governments there to halt locust monitoring work, but the...

Despite being of Mali nationality, Mali's various ethnic groups hold many distinctions. The Bambaras, Dogons, Fulani and Tuaregs all maintain a...

Two years ago, in the western Malian village of Korera-Kore, a 13-year-old girl was forced into marriage during her school summer holiday. She died...

In a spate of attacks by armed militias in north-eastern Mali over the last week at least 35 soldiers have been kidnapped and 11 people killed by...

In the village of Toroli in Mali, 10-year-old Amadou waits for his father while sitting on the family's camel instead of going to Koranic school. As...