Mali is known — if it is known at all — for being one of the world's poorest and most inhospitable countries. The country, roughly the size of Texas, has a lot of desert and Africa's hottest city, ...

An Air Algerie flight with 110 passengers onboard, nearly half of them French citizens, crashed on Thursday after the jet disappeared over northern Mali en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, an ...

NORTH OF TIMBUKTU Mali (Reuters) - If the French army and its allies are to keep al Qaeda at bay in the desert of northern Mali they must stop them seizing the biggest prizes in the sea of white sand ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamists in northern Mali say they have pushed the secular Tuareg rebels out of a northwestern town and into the desert and now control the main Mali towns bordering Mauritania ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - Western tourists danced among the sand dunes of Mali on Saturday as the West African country sought to put its desert festival back on the world music map despite the threat ...

PARIS/BAMAKO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - French warplanes pounded Islamist rebel camps in the far north of Mali, military sources said, hours after French President Francois Hollande visited the West African ...

Each January, in the desert dunes beyond the legendary city of Timbuktu, Tuareg nomads, musicians from across Africa and Europe, intrepid travellers and the odd Hollywood celebrity gather for the ...

What makes a festival? How do the social dynamics of a festival differ from those of other gatherings, such as concerts, happenings, parades, conferences, round/long tables... ? How can the particular ...

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