Bamako, Mali News

Malian singer Oumou Sangare promotes her new album, Seya , with a free concert this Thursday in the Pritzker Pavilion at 8 PM.

Malian President Amadou Toumani attended the graduation ceremony of Ufuk High School.

Lebel-Sur-Quevillon, Canada - "Some say that I'm practicing voodoo in the woods, but I'm just very efficient.

Interview with Malick Sidibe: "I Should Keep on Working Much More and Even Better" "When I began to take photographs, I never imaged that my photos would travel around the world." MADRID.- Since 1960, Malick Sidibe has produced photographs in his studio, Studio Malick, located in Bamako.

In a fifth-floor flat of a tower block near Pre Lachaise cemetery in Paris, 50-year-old Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, the co-founder of the brilliant African "desert blues" band Tinariwen, is talking about the first time he heard music.

Oumou Sangare's new album Seya is the artists first album in six years. June 25, 2009 - Oumou Sangare began singing at weddings and on the streets more than 25 years ago in Mali's musical metropolis, Bamako.

In the 20 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, all West African countries have ratified it.

"I will literally be going to Timbuktu" said David Koh.The Middletown native will be leaving July 9 to serve the next 27 months with the Peace Corps.

Seven Gambian Press Union executives and newspaper journalists arrested earlier this week were charged late Thursday.

BAMAKO: Malian security forces have killed about 20 suspected Al Qaeda fighters in a raid near the Algeria border targeting a cell thought to have executed a British hostage, security sources said yesterday.

Bamako, June 17 : Mali's army has killed at least a dozen militants in an attack on an Al Qaeda base near the border with Algeria, a media report said Wednesday.

The Black Stars have forced Africa football expert Mark Gleeson to eat large and copious amounts of humble pie.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER returning from national assignment, Samuel Inkoom stormed the camping base of Kotoko to donate some items to his colleagues.

Hundreds of indie rock fans poured out of Lower Manhattan's old vaudeville theater Webster Hall a few nights ago, buzzing all the way into the subway after watching Malian duo Amadou and Mariam tear down the house.

Bamako . Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. Credit: French American Cultural Exchange.

AMADOU AND MARIAM'S latest CD is called " Welcome to Mali ," but it really should be called "Welcome to the World." It's the type of record that is so joyous and positive that it feels like it could bring together warring factions - take note, State Department - but it's really more of a sonic Evite to explore the diverse country in Northwest ...

Snaky electric guitar lines, exotic Afro-blues melodies, hip-shaking polyrhtymic beats and haunting, dipped in melancholy vocals sung mostly in French and their native Bambara.

Jun. 4--Led on stage Tuesday at Park West by their assistants, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia were a perfectly matched couple.

Eco Factor: Sustainable stove crafted from locally sourced scrap steel. Designed by Douglas Schaller, Ara Acle and Jill Holm, the Bamako Stove is an inexpensive stove to be crafted in Mali from local materials by traditional blacksmiths.

Mali on Wednesday named an Islamist leader believed to be behind the execution of a British hostage after an Al-Qaeda cell claimed it had exacted revenge for the detention of a radical cleric.