Malihas become an established transit route for weapons heading from WestAfrica’s increasingly peaceful coastal states to active conflicts inWest and...

MALI: Fears over privatising cotton

Afteryears of delays the Mali national cotton company, Malian Company forTextile Development (CMDT), is on the verge of privatisation with bidsfor...

MALI: Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets

In 2000 the Maliangovernment signed up to UN Education for All goals to help 50 percent moreadults become literate by 2015, but eight years on still...

MALI: Children scrape by on scrap

Seyba Traoré, aged 11, and his brother Moumini, 9, set out each morning with big bags slung over their shoulders to sort through the capital’s many...

MALI: Cooking with poison

Cut-price cooking oil used in most Malian households has been found to contain gossypol, a toxic substance that is known to cause sterility, cancer...

African Hit - Artist Spotlight: Habib Koité

Habib Koité comes from a great line of Malian Khassonké jalis.He studied music for four years at the National Institute of Arts (NIA) in Bamako,...