Nov 21 Mali declares state of emergency after at least 19 killed in hotel assault By Andrew Mach The president of the West African nation of Mali ordered a 10-day state of emergency and three days of national morning in the wake of Friday's attack on a luxury hotel in the capital of Bamako. Continue reading
Nov 20 Watch 6:11 Who was behind the Bamako hotel attack? By PBS News Hour Extremists armed with guns and grenades stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako, Mali, early Friday morning, shooting dozens. Witnesses said they went room by room, letting guests go if they could recite verses of the Koran. Malian special forces stormed… Continue watching
Nov 20 American among those killed at hotel in Mali By News Desk Gunmen stormed a Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako Friday morning, taking more than 100 hostages. At least 20 people were reported dead by the end of the day-long siege, including one American. Continue reading
Aug 13 Farmers are dialing for seeds to make money in Mali By Larisa Epatko “What if you could buy fertilizer and seeds the same way that you buy prepaid minutes for your phone?” thought microfinance specialist Anushka Ratnayake. Continue reading
May 20 More -- not less -- religion needed to fight extremism, imam director says By Thalia Beaty, Kristopher Brant and Maggy Donaldson The North African country of Morocco has a series of religious training programs aimed at countering Islamic radicalism. Now, it is working to expand these programs to regional and even global levels. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch 5:03 How African musician Salif Keita went from social outcast to international superstar By PBS News Hour Salif Keita is known today as the "golden voice" of Africa, but in his youth he was an outcast, unaccepted by his community because he was born with albinism. Turning to music as an outlet, Keita rose to be one… Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch 6:18 Bringing Mali's music back from exile By PBS News Hour Mali is a country renowned for its music, but in 2012, the music stopped. That year, separatist rebels and Islamic groups seized two-thirds of the country and banned any expression of art. While French and Malian forces drove the Islamists… Continue watching
Mar 09 Mali's artists fight to save the country's ancient cultural treasures By Molly Knight Raskin The northern part of Mali, in West Africa, has come under attack repeatedly since 2012, when al-Qaida linked militants seized two-thirds of the country. Today, as U.N.-led peace talks progress, Mali’s artists and scholars are joining in the fight for… Continue reading
Feb 20 Reporter's Notebook: the difficulty of getting to Timbuktu By Jeffrey Brown For these trips, these stories, we calibrate the details so finely – the days away, the money spent, the interviews to be done, the shots we have to get, the places we have to get to. Take out one thing… Continue reading