Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

The Rencontres de Bamako photography biennale took place from mid-November until mid-January without past sponsor France, ...

HeritageWatch.AI, a new collaboration launched in Paris, combines satellite imagery, 3D modelling, and AI to provide ...

While their home country of Mali has experienced plenty of turmoil in recent years, Songhoy Blues remain resolute and defiant in their mission to spread joy.

Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, increase global temperatures. Rising temperatures, in turn, cause moisture to evaporate at a faster rate. This ...

Dakar's architectural heritage is at risk as historic structures like the Sandaga market are demolished for modern ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

(Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France’s decades-long military presence in the Sahel is officially over. France handed over its last base in Chad Thursday after President Mahamat ...

Those countries have moved closer to Moscow, with Russian mercenaries deployed across the Sahel, the vast expanse below the Sahara desert. In a statement on Thursday, Chad’s army announced the French ...

On Wednesday Ecowas said it would keep its "doors open" to Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, even though they have forged ahead with their own bloc, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES by its French ...

For the first time in decades, the question of how Syria will be governed is wide open. The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the hands of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed Islamist group with former ...

NIAMEY - A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region, Niger's defence chief said on state ...