Mali News

BAMAKO, Mali : Authorities in northern Mali are searching for assailants who attacked a military base overnight, wounding two paramilitary police in a gunbattle and kidnapping three others, the army said.

LIMB <, 23 July 2008 - The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV, both within this group and across the ...

HH THE Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has received a letter from Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure dealing with bilateral relations and matters of mutual concern.

As part of his 4,000-mile cross-country bicycle trek, the Rev. Bruce Overstreet will visit Anderson - he expects it to be on Monday - in an effort to raise money for renovations to a small West African ...

Sociolingo's Africa reports on a new museum to be created in Sikasso, Mali. It will be the first museum designed to preserve the heritage of the balafon , an African xylophene played in Mali, Burkina Faso, ...

This film about two illiterate women who are ordinary but did extraordinary work for their villages.

Months of hard work came to fruition for Airmen from Aviano Air Base, Italy, when they delivered boxes of clothing to a local orphanage July 16 in Mali.

In a dimly lit, dusty classroom, 32 Malian medics and nurses received their first-ever mass casualty training July 15 in Kati, Mali, 15 kilometers outside the capital city of Bamako.

More than 90 servicemembers deployed to Bamako, Mali, July 11 for MEDFLAG 08, a multinational medical training exercise designed to enhance medical capabilities and readiness for U.S. and African forces.

Iddar Ag Ogazide, a black Tamasheq, was born in 1973 at Tinahamma near Ansongo in northern Mali, 1350km north of Bamako.

Growing up in the West African nation of Mali, Alima Traore assumed that girls everywhere had to undergo the procedure.

Participants of the annual People's Forum in Mali called for the dismantling of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Despite high global food prices, conflict in the north and the onset of the lean season which lasts from July to September, the food security situation in the north and elsewhere, looks positive this year in ...

Vieux Farka Toure learned to play guitar by jamming along to recordings of his father, renowned Malian musician Ali Farka Toure .

The "summit of the poor," which is taking place in Katibougou, Mali, has urged the world's richest countries, currently meeting as the G8 in Japan, to keep their promises regarding aid to Africa, according to ...

The Republic of Mali in Western Africa has selected Sagem Securite to deploy a biometric based identity system for secure management of public records.

A conference of groups that say they represent poor Africans has convened in Mali, in an effort to provide a contrast to the activities of the G8 meeting in Japan.

Britain's best world music festival takes place this month and we've got 50 pairs of tickets to give away.

As the California State University Summer Arts program continues at Fresno State, we envision this Beehive post as a place for news, recommendations, reader reviews, gripes, background information -- anything ...

Film fans who want something different from Hollywood's slim summer offerings can head to the Des Moines Art Center this month for a mix of movies from around the world.