Once home to several pre-colonial empires, the landlocked, arid West African country of Mali is one of the largest on the continent. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a key regional ...

Numbers are down at the American International School in Bamako, the capital of Mali. In just over a year, the country has witnessed a rebellion, a military coup and the occupation by Islamist ...

Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop demanded that UN peacekeepers, who have been present in the country for over a decade to address the Islamic insurgency, leave without delay. Diop claimed that ...

During the launch workshop of the African Development Bank 2023 Country Focus Report for Mali, the Malian private sector learned of investment opportunities to be seized in the context of financing ...

DOGON COUNTRY, Mali — The woman balanced a large bundle of firewood on her head, steadying it with her left hand. In her right, she grasped the handles of a black plastic bag. Yet, she still managed ...

Assistant Professor, International Development Studies, Menno Simons College, University of Winnipeg How credible were the 2018 presidential elections in Mali? Going by the allegations of stuffed ...

Mali's health minister declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus. Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according ...

Al-Qaeda's presence has grown since a coup nine months ago The area is almost identical in size to Afghanistan The U.N. has authorized intervention, likely to start in late 2013 MOPTI, Mali (AP) — ...

The Northern part of Mali in West Africa has come under attack repeatedly since 2012, when al-Qaida-linked militants seized two-thirds of the country. French and Malian forces re-took the north in ...

Africa has seen some ugly divorces in recent times: Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Now Mali is threatened with partition as a rebellion flares in the north and political uncertainty ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher ...

MOPTI, Mali — Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to ...