Mali Travel News

A military aircraft carrying U.S. Africa Command personnel was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday in Mali, causing non-life-threatening injuries to the nine people aboard the cargo plane, AFRICOM reported Friday.

A US aircraft that was in trouble had made a "difficult landing" in Mali, causing slight injuries among some people aboard, the US embassy in the west African country said on Friday.

Many adventure travellers agree that Dogon country, in central Mali, is one of the top places to visit in all of Africa.

Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan meets Malian forces Staff Sgt. Niara Diallo during a senior leader engagement Oct.

Both Malian people and Chinese diplomats hail the recent visit by a Chinese art troupe a success in promoting cultural exchanges between the two friendly countries.

Talatou Abdoulaye came to Utah for an advanced college degree but had no idea the classes would be so different from the ones offered in his home country of Mali.

Parents are supposed to outlive their children, or so thought the grandmothers sitting in the children's playroom at Gabriel TourA© hospital in Bamako, capital of Mali.

ONE of Mali's most exciting and innovative musicians will be performing at the Centenary Centre at the end of this month.

New Ulm native Alex Harsha plans on a career as a physician and hopes to practice medicine globally.

Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure said he has asked parliament to review a proposed new law strengthening the rights of women after it was rejected by the country's High Islamic Council.

BAMAKO, Mali - Hours after battling out of the 110-degree heat and diesel haze of the capital's shanty-lined streets, Yaya Diallo's rickety van bounced off a desolate country road into a pitch-dark wilderness of cow tracks and sorghum fields.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is expected in Living stone, Zambia's tourist capital city, Tuesday for the Lwiindi traditional ceremo n y of the Toka Leya people.

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.

"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.

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.

Ahead of Joshua Clottey's crunch duel with Miguel Cotto and the Ghana-Mali World/African Cup qualifier, the Chairman of the Ghana Boxing Authority , Mr.

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.

African singer guitarist and protegee of 'desert blues' master Ali Farka Toure, has cultural role as Tchamantche released Clive Davis Watch Rokia Taore perform As if the business of keeping a band on the road were not enough of a challenge, Rokia Traor is now playing the role of cultural administrator, too.

Diawoye Keita had been living in France for 16 years before he was deported back to Mali at the end of last year.