The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

The empire was central to several key trading ... Traders and scholars from Europe, the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into a university and filled it ...

At the time, the Mali empire extended through 2,000 miles of West Africa, from what today is Niger in the east, through parts of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Sierra Leone and ...

He can be credited with the spread of Islam throughout West Africa, as the Mali Empire became a hub for Islamic learning. Mansa Musa presided over a golden age of African development and prosperity.

Conrad's "Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay." But it was his Islamic faith that prompted him to make his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, thus exposing his extraordinary riches ...

KARAN, Mali (AP) — A solar power plant in this rural corner of Mali has jolted a village to life and awakened dreams of steady power in other areas of this West African nation as it sees unprecedented ...

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, ...

A goal and an assist from Ndjicoura Bomba has helped book the Little Eagles a place at the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region—notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger ... dating back to the ancient ...

Recently, gold prices have surged significantly, and one of the main reasons is that many countries are rapidly increasing their gold reserves. Nations like India, China, Poland, and Turkey have ...