Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

People cannot go to Mali's Dogon region to witness its spectacular ... Wrestlers and artists came from Niger, Senegal and Guinea to take part in Ogobagna 2025. "In Africa we have to do everything ...

Niger, on March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Judith Besnard, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region ...