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 ...

Mali's troops and its foreign security partners, believed to be Russia's Wagner mercenaries, are using violence against women and other "grave human rights abuses" to spread terror, U.N. sanctions ...