Earlier this month schools in Bamako, Mali’s capital, began reopening after a two-week closure—the latest sign of normality, ...

In Bamako, Mali's capital city, the familiar sounds of car engines and horns have been replaced by those of shuffling feet. Residents push depleted motorcycles through the city's dusty roads, ...

Mali has been struggling for over a decade to defeat “jihadists” around Gao, Kidal and Ségou. Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam ...

DAKAR/BAMAKO (Reuters) -A two-month-old fuel blockade by al Qaeda-linked militants has all but paralysed the capital of Mali, turning the screws on the military government and raising concern that the ...

For Mahamadou Sangaré, it was all about football. Growing up in Bamako, Mali – one of West Africa’s most dangerous places – ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In Bamako’s popular Darsalam neighborhood, a young gendarme stands by a newly barricaded street, his hand on the trigger of a rifle pointed slightly to the ground. The armed ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — After being spirited away from under the noses of rampaging Islamic extremists, thousands of ancient manuscripts from the fabled city of Timbuktu now face another threat: weather ...

Mali's security forces have stormed a hotel in the capital where armed gunmen are holding 170 people hostage. They have begun freeing the hostages, but reports coming from Bamako suggest the attackers ...

"Stop Disasters," an online video game developed by the United Nations, teaches young people how to reduce risks linked to ...