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 government has ordered the U.N. peacekeeping mission's human rights chief to leave the country by Tuesday, declaring him persona non grata in the latest sign of tensions between Mali's leaders ...

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 ...

Mali’s military authorities have expelled the French ambassador to the country in a 72-hour deadline announced Monday. French envoy Joel Meyer was summoned earlier Monday by the West African country’s ...

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 ...

This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on February, 22, 2024. Listen to the podcast here. Mvemba Phezo Dizolele: Welcome to Into Africa. My name is Mvemba Phezo Dizolele. I'm a senior fellow ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - The United States warned Americans in Mali on Tuesday to leave the country immediately using commercial flights, as its government comes under increasing pressure from al Qaeda-linked ...

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 ...

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 ...