Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

During their occupation of parts of Mali, Islamists have heavily damaged the country’s cultural treasures ... Of some 350,000 ancient manuscripts held in Timbuktu, Dr Abdel Kader Haidara ...

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 ...

People cannot go to Mali's Dogon region to witness its spectacular ancient culture, so the Dogons brought their dancing, wrestling and architecture to the Sahel nation's capital. The central ...