A national conference of political actors in Mali has recommended naming junta leader Assimi Goita, who seized power ...

Five Indian citizens were kidnapped in western Niger during an attack last week by armed men that also killed a dozen soldiers, according to two Nigerian security sources and a statement by Indian ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...

As part of the 20th International Nomads Festival, held in mid-April every year in M’Hamid El Ghizlane, attendees and ...

Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for "purple ...

Timbuktu’s beginnings go back to the 1100s when a group of Tuareg wanderers from northwest Africa made a temporary camp near ...

Davie Matthews Band, Burna Boy, HAIM, Charlie & The Tropicales, Boyfriend and more musicians and bands to see on the first ...

Algeria served for many years as a key mediator as Mali’s government faced off against Tuareg rebels for decades after the country gained independence from France in 1960, but tension has been ...

Around 50 people, gloved and equipped with rubbish bags ... a 35-year-old Malian member of Imarhan Timbuktu, a Tuareg blues group. He called the waste a direct danger to livestock, which are ...

The act was "contrary to historical relations and fraternal relations between the peoples of the AES Confederation and the Algerian people", the ... s government and Tuareg rebels.