Qatar Red Crescent to send relief aid to Mali's rebel-held north
People load on onto a truck carrying residents fleeing south from an Islamic insurgency in northern Mali at the trading town of Mopti, June 19, 2012.
View ArticleSidi Toure - Koima
Unlike Western African neighbors such as Nigeria and Ghana, Mali usually doesn't come up in conversations about great musical hotbeds.
View ArticleNo room for complacency on al Qaeda
Is the West African state of Mali, where al Qaeda fighters are well-established in the north, the next Afghanistan? You might think so, listening to former Canadian ambassador Robert Fowler on NPR this...
View ArticleSummerStage shows drew audiences, but bills could be stronger
Well, Staten Island was treated to its annual SummerStage concerts this past Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
View ArticleMali 'blues' musician Sidi Toure to perform in Millheim
On tour to promote "Koima," his second full-length album for indie label Thrill Jockey, Malian guitarist Sidi Toure will bring his message of peace and stories of home to Millheim on Aug.
View ArticleMeanwhile, In Mali
In the capital, Bamako, a political settlement between the military junta that overthrew the constitutional government and an interim civilian government supported by the Economic Community of West...
View ArticleMali's Cultural Heritage, Old And New, Faces Threats
Mali's popular Festival of the Desert, held each year near Timbuktu, attracts both local and international music stars.
View ArticleMali: Pastoralism - Between Resilience and Survival
Mopti/Bamako - Hundreds of pastoralists in the Mopti Region of central Mali are stuck between floodplains to the south and armed Islamists and rebels to the north.
View ArticleAfrica's archeology legacy in peril
Books at the Djenne Manuscript Library in Mopti, Mali, Nov. 11, 2011. In Djenne-Djenno, one of the best-known archaeological sites in sub-Saharan Africa, theft and fighting have left many...
View ArticleMob saves thief from hand-chopping
A still from a video shows Islamist militants destroying an ancient shrine in Timbuktu.
View ArticleMalians take up arms to drive out al-Qa'ida
"Nah. Thanks, but no thanks. No offence - I just don't think you lot are all that funny." So spoke a... On a sandy football field in the outer suburbs of the Malian capital Bamako, 300 men and women...
View ArticleWest Africa: Drug Trafficking and the Crisis in Mali
Mali has until recently been regarded as one of the most politically stable countries in West Africa.
View ArticleMalian youth, Islamists clash over planned amputation
Malian youths clashed with ruling Islamists in the city of Gao in a protest against the planned punishment by amputation of a suspected robber and the beating of a journalist covering the...
View ArticleMali's civilian militia has many hands but arms in short supply
Faith in numbers ... haphazard citizen militias opposing radical Islamist forces have few resources but, unlike the regular Malian army, have a fierce will to undo the conquest of northern Mali.
View ArticleMust-Reads from Around the World, August 6, 2012
The New York Times reports from Mopti in Mali where hundreds of poorly armed civilians are training to wage war.
View ArticleMali journo beaten for covering protest
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View ArticleChina to build agricultural research facility in Mali
It will be built at an estimated cost of 55 million Chinese yuan , with a loan from It is part of China's soft power diplomacy and research strategy, according to Azontond, who said: "The results will...
View ArticlePopular Opposition to Radical Islamists in Northern Mali
Women members of a self-defence militia calling itself the FLN train in Sevare, about 600 kms northeast of the capital Bamako, July 11, 2012.
View ArticleMali Islamists 'ready to talk'
The head of the main Islamist group which has taken control of northern Mali says he accepts Burkina Faso's mediation efforts.
View ArticleMali In Crisis Fractures Along Twin Fault Lines
Militiaman from the Ansar Dine radical Islamic group ride on an armed vehicle between Gao and Kidal in northeastern Mali in June.
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