Everything about Mady Sissoko’s life reads like fiction. A 6-foot-9 graduate student and center for the Cal basketball team, ...

Mali’s Transitional National Council passed a law on October 31 that makes homosexuality a criminal offense. The new legislation will intensify risks of stigma, discrimination, and violence ...

Trade unions in Mali have called for prison staff to go on strike from Tuesday until two union members who have been missing for several days are located. Since the military seized power in back ...

In 2020, Mali’s fourth successful military coup installed the leadership of the Comité National pour le Salut du Peuple (CNSP). Although the military takeover reflects an overall weakening of ...

A 2015 peace deal with Tuareg separatists has floundered since the 2020 coup and the junta's recent expulsion of UN peacekeepers Fierce fighting has broken out in northern Mali with Tuareg rebels ...

Mali has been grappling with a complex crisis since 2012 along with inter-communal violence, which has claimed thousands of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of others.

Mother Halima Cissé (R) was pictured with two of the nine babies shortly after they arrived back in Mali The world's only nonuplets - nine babies born at the same time - have safely returned home ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In the courtyard of a psychiatric ward in Mali’s capital, a small group of patients acts out scenes of a village dispute to the beat of a djembe, a traditional West African ...

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Group 2-winning juvenile and TDN Rising Star Sakheer (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) has been acquired by Ballyhane Stud and will take up stallion duties at the County Carlow outfit in 2025. Sakheer topped the ...

Mali's junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita and five other key figures in the military administration have been promoted to general, according to a statement released after a cabinet meeting Wednesday.