Cut-price cooking oil used in most Malian households has been found to contain gossypol, a toxic substance that is known to cause sterility, cancer...

After months of pleas to authorities from village leaders, the Malian and Guinean governments say they will take steps to prevent further violence...

For years, women in the Malian village Sotuba squabbled over the two state-run standpipes, having walked two or three kilometres in search of water...

Kalifan Keita is a peasant farmer with no medical education, salary or transport other than a wobbly bicycle, yet he is achieving in Mali what the...

When Nouhoum Sangaré left his wife, three children and village in southern Mali for the capital Bamako 240km away, he expected to find stable work...

It took Souleymane Diallo 55 years to build the 10 mud-walled rooms that made up his family’s house, and almost all his money to fill the small...

In principle, the 81mm of rain that drenched the mud walled houses and bone dry fields in this town on 26 July should not have posed a major...

A spate of kidnappings and attacks by militias in northern Mali and Niger has forced governments there to halt locust monitoring work, but the...

Western diplomats in Mali have condemned a spate of attacks by armed militias in the north of the country. “European Union member states,...

Two years ago, in the western Malian village of Korera-Kore, a 13-year-old girl was forced into marriage during her school summer holiday. She died...