Mali News

Just days ago, I folded myself into a US embassy vehicle in Bamako, Mali, fresh off the plane from Timbuktu, the historic center of Islamic learning and trans-Saharan trade in the north of the country.

Judy Lorimer has just returned from a month in Mali, West Africa, doing volunteer work for Save the Children.

Iran and Benin on Sunday night discussed bilateral relations as well as key regional and international developments.

A U.S. government delegation has pledged to assist the West African nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Senegal in addressing developmental aspects of their cotton industries.

Giniel de Villiers and Jean Marie Lurquin are continuing their journey towards Dakar in a regular and consistent fashion by setting the third-fastest time on the timed sector between Bamako and Kayes, the ...

The Mitsubishi Motors Repsol ATS Studios Team extended its overall lead in the 27th Dakar Rally to over one and a half hours, after the 370 kms timed special stage between Bamako and Kayes in Mali, today ...

Australian motorcyclist Andy Caldecott won his second stage of the gruelling Dakar rally in Mali overnight, finishing the 370-kilometre 13th stage between Bamako and Kayes more than two minutes ahead of his ...

What began as a father-daughter outing ended in tragedy when a microlight crashed into a mountain near Worcester, killing a grape farmer and seriously injuring his daughter, who endured almost seven hours ...

Local Sierra Club members overwhelmingly elected Carol Kunze, Nancy Tamarisk, Elaine Honig and Tyler York to serve on the Napa group's executive committee, rejecting bids by former members John Stephens and ...

Sources said on Monday in Mali capital Bamako that the place of the two Qataris kidnapped on Saturday by an "armed gang" is on the border between Mali and Mauritania.

Seemingly ageless portraits of peoples of Mali and new perspectives on the much-photographed Grand Canyon are among recently released books.

The band members live on the edge of the Sahara Desert, in an environment of sand and distance that reflects their nomad roots.

It is at dusk, when the torrid heat finally subsides, that this desert boom town swells with the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young African men determined to cross the Sahara, the Mediterranean Sea and ...

TIMBUKTU is a common catch phrase for a place at the end of the earth. Sonoma County blues musician Markus James actually ventured to Timbuktu, the fabled city on the edge of the Sahara Desert in West Africa, ...

The co-operative ties between Vietnam and France are developing beneficially, Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung told Jean Pierre Brard, Mayor of Montreuil city of France, in Hanoi on Tuesday.

Science and Tech. Science and Tech. A Book titled: ALPHA OUMAR KONARE AN AFRICAN FROM MALI launched here on Friday at a ceremony held the African Union Conference Hall.

The Mamadou Diabate Ensemble followed up last year's successful performance by returning to the Center for the Arts Friday night, once again regaling a Middlebury audience with the captivating sounds of music ...

So far six countries have shown willingness to supervise the sentences: Mali, Swaziland, Benin, Italy, France and Sweden.

Mali drew with Zambia in Group One of the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign on Saturday in Bamako.

Mali"s President Amadou Toumani Toure announced a new national government on Sunday, days after the previous administration stepped down at his request.

Unidentified armed assailants attacked a Malian Red Cross mission which was on its way to help the residents in the northern region of Bourem at the weekend, a Red Cross official told IRIN on Friday.

Senior students at the Bromfield School are required to work on a Humanities project, and Christina Walton is carrying on a project initiated two years ago by Kyla McKenna, who started ...

Former Ivory Coast national team coach Lama Bamba has taken over the reins at fading Malian giants Real de Bamako.

African heads of state and senior representatives of the nine members of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) drafted and signed a blue print for the sustainable use of the Niger River and ...

For most of the year, Dr. Kevin Deighton"s medical practice extends no further than the area surrounding his office in Livonia.

Authoritarian rulers often organize national conventions or conferences. They do so when they realize that their legitimacy to rule has been eroded irreparably.

Mali is promoting solar power and modern, clean energy such as butane to reduce poverty and improve the lives of rural women and safeguard the environment.

Ismaili had to play without their key striker, Malian Dramane Traore, who hasn't returned from Bamako yet following his participation in the Cup of Nations.

African gold miner Randgold Resources said on Monday it was looking to pay its first dividend even as it reported a heavy slide in annual profit.

The sheer strangeness of Manding "swing" music can be daunting. Sure, there are enough familiar elements, from amplified instrumentation to radio-friendly lengths that tell you in an instant that ...

S former world rally champion Colin McRae chalked up his first Dakar win yesterday with a resounding victory in the 13th stage, becoming the first Briton in 14 years to win a car stage of the famous ...

The former World Cup downhill skier, Luc Alphand, won the 12th stage of the Dakar Rally yesterday as the race restarted after a three-day break to avoid armed bandits in Mali.