The Cliff of Bandiagara, Land of the Dogons, is a vast cultural landscape covering 400,000 ha and includes 289 villages scattered between the three natural regions: sandstone plateau, escarpment ...

The Dogon people, who largely practise settled agriculture, have lived in the Bandiagara escarpment in central Mali for centuries. Homes carved into the limestone rock and the architecture ...

Families stay up late to watch spooky movies and share ghost stories. This is Halloween, a celebration that gets its name ...

In 2020, Mali’s fourth successful military coup installed the leadership of the Comité National pour le Salut du Peuple (CNSP). Although the military takeover reflects an overall weakening of ...

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 ...

The denial follows a newspaper report that rebels were "benefiting from discreet" support from Kyiv. "Jane" told the BBC she was ill and felt low and lonely following the death of her husband.

A vast country in the Sahel, Mali is a low-income economy, with little diversification and exposed to fluctuations in commodity prices. Its rapid population growth (fertility rate of 5.88 children per ...

Liptako-Gourma is in the central Sahel, in the borderlands of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Current instability is associated with the collapse of the Libyan state in 2011, which led to ...

Mali, where military authorities seized power in coups in 2020 and 2021, is battling a years-long Islamist insurgency that spun out of a Tuareg separatist rebellion in the north of the Sahel country.

Home and Away spoilers follow for UK viewers. Home and Away's Mali Hudson gets upset as his new career direction hits a hurdle on UK screens next week. The Summer Bay soap has been exploring a new ...

The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places). Several ...

1980 IGN: Carte de l'Afrique de l'Ouest au 1:200,000. Rép du Mali - Feuille ND-3--XV "Bandiagara". Paris: 1ère ed. 1957; réimpression juillet 1970. (65x75cm). En bleu, les limites du bien inscrit. The ...