Culture
Djenné's Great Mosque: the world's largest mud-brick building
Rebuilt in 1907 on a site used for worship since the 13th century, it is replastered by the whole town every year.
West Africa
Mali
The latest news from Mali: politics, business, technology, culture, sport and more.
Culture
Mansa Musa: the Mali emperor whose gold moved markets in Cairo
Seven centuries ago, the ruler of the Mali Empire crossed the Sahara with so much gold that he changed its price in Egypt.
Culture
How Timbuktu's families saved 350,000 manuscripts
Seven centuries of African scholarship, on astronomy, medicine, law and poetry, survived a 2012 occupation because librarians and families smuggled it to safety.
Politics
Mali is sheltering more than 322,000 refugees and asylum seekers
Even with 414,000 of its own people displaced, Mali has taken in refugees, among them 86,000 from Burkina Faso in one region alone, and passed a new law on statelessness.
Politics
Mali's army re-enters Kidal as Tuareg separatists pull out
The northern town fell to rebels in April. Analysts call its recapture, with Russian support, a symbolic win for the military government rather than a decisive one.
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