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

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 ...

(Nairobi) – Armed groups have carried out a wave of killings in central Mali since ... villagers by a Bambara self-defense militia known as the Dozos, leaving at least 21 people dead, including ...

SAFO, Mali — Most of the students had never seen their native language in its written form until recently. Now, they were eagerly sounding out the words appearing on the ThinkPad laptops before ...

If you want to stay healthy and help save the planet, how about a dish of algae followed by some cactus and ancient grains? Once a staple mainly eaten in Bolivia and Peru, quinoa has now become a ...

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.

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 ...

By Ruth Maclean BAMAKO, Mali ... to talk to people from Mopti, and Bandiagara, and so on,” his descendant said, referring to areas of Mali, and switching between French and Bambara, the ...

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 ...

One patient, Mamadou Diarra, cries out to another in the Bambara language ... support and a sense of community to people receiving psychiatric care. Mali has fewer than 50 mental health ...