Al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM) released a short audio message yesterday from its Saudi spokesman, Abu Dujana al-Qasimi. Qasimi frames ...

These central Mali attacks kill a lot of civilians and those civilians often belong to other local tribes (like the Dogon) and increase friction between the Fulani and the other tribes of central Mali ...

Twenty-seven people were killed in clashes between members of the same Tuareg tribe in Mali's troubled northeast earlier this week, the West African state's security ministry said Thursday. Previous ...

The only thing that keeps those Tuareg tribes in line are the peacekeepers and especially the French counterterrorism force. If the Mali government can’t get past its own corruption and prejudice ...

Commander of the United Nations' most dangerous peacekeeping mission is not a title that Major General Michael Lollesgaard relishes. The Danish commander heads up the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in ...

* Former insurgent says army officers sold weapons to rebels * Says Qaeda uses ransom money to bribe officials, tribes * Mali official says allegations unreliable, "inflammatory" By Lamine Chikhi ...

During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — From descendants of an infamous pirate to heroes of the Holocaust, PBS’ “Genealogy Roadshow” uncovers family secrets in its second season, including those of St. Louis area families.

DAKAR (Reuters) - The chief of the most powerful Tuareg tribe in northern Mali died on Thursday, signaling a change of leadership as Tuareg separatists are locked in peace talks with the government.

From left, Odanak First Nation Abenaki citizen Mali Obomsawin, Odanak First Nation Councilor Jacques Watso and Penobscot Nation citizen Jus Crea Giammarino speak at the University of Vermont last week ...