Mali

Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 18 people and wounded several during a raid on a restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital overnight, but secu(...)

Looking towards the shimmering blue of the Aegean Sea, and with Turkey’s Cesme peninsula filling the horizon, Ilyas shares the story of his odyssey to(...)

African powers launched a new multinational military force to tackle Islamist militants in the Sahel on Sunday, which French president Emmanuel Macron(...)

There’s heart galore in both the music and story of these north Malian guitar slingers. Driven out of their homeland by Islamist jihadi hardliners, Ga(...)

At least two people were killed in an attack by gunmen on Sunday at a luxury resort outside Mali’s capital Bamako popular with western expatriates, th(...)

At the end of last year, Ethiopia withdrew thousands of troops previously assisting the internationally-funded African military force battling al-Qaed(...)

President Donald Trump’s airstrikes against Syria were of dubious legality. They were hypocritical. They were impulsive. They may have had political m(...)

Elwan is very definitely the sound of exile. Since their homeland between northern Mali and southern Algeria was over-run by jihadists in 2012, Tuare(...)

A lot of the music that has appeared in this column has come from parts of the world where distribution was the main reason it remained hidden from ou(...)

At least 60 people have been killed after a suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle attacked a camp in northern Mali. A total of 115 soldiers (...)