the centre of trade and culture. News of wealth and learning spread far and wide. Traders and scholars from Europe, the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into ...

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 ...

Mali's culture minister, Mamou Daffé ... Youssou N'Dour said he considered Amadou & Mariam to be "the ambassadors of African music almost everywhere in the world". Speaking to France's TV5 ...

The seat of the representative of Mali stands empty during the fifth extraordinary ... in power since 2013 at the helm of the West African country, which for years has faced a security, political ...