Discover seven powerful pre-colonial African kingdoms that shaped the continent’s history through trade, culture, and ...

Despite the challenges that many New York brands have faced this past year, Snow Xue Gao’s flagship shop on the Bowery is still seeing a lot of customers come in and out. The wool coats are some ...

His lawyers have argued he was trying to maintain order in a chaotic situation after the rebel takeover of Timbuktu. Clad in a traditional West African yellow robe and white head dress ...

Gao, the largest city in northern Mali, some 320 km (200 miles) east of Timbuktu, is also being blockaded by JNIM. The militant group tightened its control over the past week, with a local ...

Flights from the Malian capital, Bamako, to the northern cities of Timbuktu and Gao have been cancelled due to insecurity. Several shells landed near Timbuktu airport on Monday. A United Nations ...

The key cities in the north were seized by Tuareg and Islamist rebels after a 22 March coup in Bamako, but the Islamists quickly took the upper hand and began implementing strict Islamic law in ...

When Sundiata’s grand-nephew, Mansa Musa, became emperor, he made Timbuktu his capital. He pushed the boundaries of the Mali Empire, expanding control to the cities of Gao in the east ...

French soldiers of the Barkhane force patrol the streets of Timbuktu, northern Mali ... patrol on foot in the streets of Gao, on July 24 a day after suicide bombers in a... replastering the great mud ...

Gao, Songhay’s capital, the cities of Timbuktu and Djenne were the other major cultural and commercial centers of the empire. We can see on the Map in West Africa Songhay Empire and Kebbi Kingdom ...

While Bourama claims he excavates only for his own personal collection, there are many other dealers in Mopti and around other key archaeologically rich areas, such as Gao, Djenné and Timbuktu, who ...