Twenty-seven people were killed in clashes between members of the same Tuareg tribe in Mali’s troubled northeast earlier this week, the West African state’s security ministry said Thursday. Previous ...

May 27, 2026: JNIM/Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen recently carried out an attack to capture several towns in northern Mali. The territory threatened included the Kidal and Gao areas. This was ...

Three months after the completion of a peace deal to end decades of conflict in northern Mali, stability remains an elusive dream undermined by tribal rivalries and internecine power struggles.

During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named ...