A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military ...

Western governments warn citizens to flee Bamako as al Qaeda-affiliated fighters block fuel routes and encircle Mali’s ...

Al Qaeda-linked militants have neared the capital, blocking roads, ambushing troops, and attacking fuel trucks.

Scientists are reporting for the first time that sculptors from the fantastically wealthy ancient Empire of Mali -- once the source of almost half the world's gold -- used blood to form the beautiful ...

An ongoing fuel blockade initiated by the JNIM jihadist group in Mali has brought the landlocked Sahel nation's economy to a near standstill. In an effort to isolate the capital, Bamako, and exert ...

Fifty-three Cambodian peacekeepers of Airfield Engineering Unit 729 returned to Cambodia on October 27 after completing their humanitarian UN mission in Mali, according to the Ministry of National ...

Mali’s transitional president, General Assimi Goïta, inaugurated the country’s second lithium mine on Monday, November 3, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Boris Johnson’s government is deploying three hundred British troops to the UN ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well-trained ...