These ports have played an important economic, historical and cultural role ... Annual plastering of the Great Mosque of Djenné. By UN Mission in Mali / Sophie Ravier, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr Learn ...

Residents of Mali's northern town of Tinzaouaten, caught in the crossfire of a fierce July battle between Tuareg rebels and ...

Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed El-Gamal presented his credentials to Malian Transitional President Assimi Goïta on Saturday, ...

Chad’s government says it is ending a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, to redefine the ...

The 48-year-old was a member of Ansar Dine, an Islamic extremist group linked to al-Qaida that held power in northern Mali at the time, and served as the ancient city’s police chief. A French ...

Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the UNESCO World ...

People living in cities in Mali under siege by al-Qaeda-linked militants ... has been trying to completely cut off the historic northern city of Timbuktu, preventing supplies from getting in.

MALI offers plenty of restrooms throughout the ... Afterward, take a walk along Jirón de la Unión, a pedestrian street in the historic district that leads to the Plaza de Armas (Plaza Mayor).

He may be one of Mali's most popular photographers, endowed with an eye for spectacular landscapes or a slice of life, whose images were then printed on postcards that sold by the thousand.

THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out when he ...