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Malian film director Souleymane Cisse looks on onstage at the Tribeca Talks Directors Series during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City at SVA Theatre on April 29, 2011. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images North America/AFP

Souleymane Cisse, father of African cinema, dead at 84

He won the jury's prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his film 'Yeelen'

February 20, 2025| AFP
French-Malian singer Aya Coco Danioko aka Aya Nakamura. Photo: Valery Hache/AFP

Afropop star Aya Nakamura faces court over domestic violence

Both partners were charged

November 24, 2022| AFP
In this AFP file photo, soldiers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), look out over the desert from a watchtower in Mali. Two peacekeepers were killed and two others injured on June 3, 2022 after an improvised explosive device exploded in central Mali.

Bomb kills two peacekeepers in Mali: UN

Sixth incident in which a UN peacekeeping convoy was hit since May 22

June 4, 2022| AFP
Sory Bamba, 82, poses in his courtyard in Mopti, central Mali. Photos: Michele Cattani/AFP

Sory Bamba: Malian music’s forgotten great

The 82-year-old infused traditional sounds with funk and jazz

November 16, 2020| AFP
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari (L) and the Imam Mahmoud Dicko (C), influential leader of the opposition coalition, greet each other after a meeting in Bamako on July 23, 2020 as West African leaders gather in a fresh push to end an escalating political crisis in the fragile state of Mali. Photo: AFP

African summit ends with no deal on Mali crisis

West African leaders ended a day-long summit in Mali on Thursday without a deal to soothe the country's escalating political crisis. Five of the region's leaders met Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and leaders of a protest movement clamouring for...

July 24, 2020| AFP