The military juntas of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed a treaty of confederation Saturday bringing together 72 million people into the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). It’s a decision, they ...

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

The map locates the country of Mali, in northwestern Africa, and it’s capital, Bamako, in the southwest of the country. It also locates the neighborhood of Faladié, between downtown Bamako and ...

But then, they watched as the landscape of central Mali changed. "So this area was peaceful and then the regional war spread," explains Johnson pointing to a map of the Bankass region of central Mali.

A donor conference organised by the European Union, France and Mali on May 13 brought together 108 countries and international institutions in Brussels. They pledged €3.25 billion for Mali in ...