A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital. For over a month, they have attacked convoys supplying Bamako with fuel, putting considerable ...

When the military overthrew the democratically elected government in Mali in 2020, coup leader General Assimi Goita promised to root out jihadists in the north of the country. Mali had been struggling ...

The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 1960 as the Mali Federation. When Senegal withdrew after only a few months, what formerly made up the Sudanese Republic was renamed ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 July 2023 Once home to several pre-colonial empires, the landlocked, arid West African country of Mali is one of the largest on the ...

distributed over 1,400 tonnes of rice, beans, cooking oil and iodized salt to 80,000 people in the urban community of Gao and in the communities of Bourem, Bourra, Ouatagouna, Ansongo and Gounzourey; ...

In 2017, we continued to provide humanitarian assistance to the many people affected by the violence in Mali, in particular in the north of the country, and stepped up our efforts to help an ...

Mali was once called Ghana. The great Ghana Empire (c.800-1230) was based in western Mali. “Ghana” means “warrior king” in the language of the Soninke (the indigenous people of the Senegal river ...

Harare — IN the silence of the darkness that enveloped Harare on a midwinter night on June 19 this year, a flurry of diplomatic and boardroom activities were in full motion to save a trip that would ...

Ahram Online provided a live score coverage of Tuesday’s match between Mali and Burkina Faso in the African Cup of Nations round of 16 Mali: Djigui Diarra - Hamari Traore, Falaye Sacko, Boubacar Kiki ...