Mali was again threatened in 2012 when jihadist militants took over cities. “Imposing their own despotic version of religious Islamic law, with brutal punishments and public executions, the jihadists ...

Rokia Traoré On Taking Up Music, And Mali's 'Iron Women' The Malian singer-songwriter finished her latest album, Beautiful Africa, just as war was breaking out in her home country.Traoré says ...

Tuareg refugees fleeing Islamist rebels have taken cover with the Dogon, an ancient tribe in central Mali. Now both fear annihilation as al-Qa’ida and Malian troops close in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On the eve of International Women’s Day, FIDH joins human rights and women’s rights organisations in Mali and the Coalition of the Campaign “Africa for Women’s Rights: Ratify and respect !” to call ...

Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali's fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque and, more ...