People came from Ethiopia, Andalusia (southern Spain), Arabia and Turkey. From the late 1200s to the early 1300s, the city became part of the Mali Empire and became central to the empire’s ...

Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has transformed the lives of many blind and partially sighted people ...

The Mali Empire was founded in 1226 CE by Sundiata Keita. Sundiata was the second son of the King of the Mandinka people. It was prophesized that Sundiata would become a great ruler. Upon the ...

An airstrike in northern Mali killed at least 18 people, a separatist group said, while the army says it targeted armed militants ...

The Mwene was killed and many Kongo people were enslaved and taken to the Portuguese colony of Brazil. When the Mali Empire began to decline in the 1300s, Sonni leaders seized control of the city ...