U.S. funding cuts have hit a local language learning program in Mali that empowered thousands. The project was backed by $25 ...

Ask most people for one fact about Mali ... a sleepy city that you pass on the way to Timbuktu. A hub in the ancient Mali empire that stretched from Africa's westernmost tip inland to Niger ...

Show more Bambara Blues: on the 200th anniversary of the abolition in Britain of the transatlantic slave trade, Lucy Duran introduces a programme with music recorded entirely on location in Mali ...

Linguists and Braille experts in Mali ... blind. Bambara is spoken and understood by about 15 million Malians, even more than the colonial French, making it an important step for blind people.

from local children often preceded Katie Martocci as she walked through Mali’s rural neighborhoods ... in the language of the Bambara people — that many of the residents had ever seen.

Amidst the proliferation of Islamist armed groups in Mopti region, central Mali ... Bambara community leaders; government officials; diplomats; aid workers; and security analysts. A total of 148 ...