The Empire of Mali, one of the wealthiest and most influential in African history, is best known for its famous ruler, Mansa Musa, often regarded as ...

In a new directive for the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia has banned children from accompanying pilgrims. The Ministry of ...

In recent years, West Africa has seen a surge in terrorist attacks. The Sahel remains the epicenter, accounting for 47% of terrorism-related deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the Global Terrorism ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well ...

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern Northern Senegal and Southern Mauritania ... Soon Ghana was totally eclipsed by the Mali Empire of Sundiata.

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Cette population est surtout concentrée en Afrique occidentale (Mauritanie, Sénégal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Guinée, Nigeria, etc.). On trouve également des communautés importantes en ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare ...