Festival au Desert started in 2001 as a small Sahara Desert gathering of Tuareg tribes and Malian musicians in the aftermath of civil strife between Mali’s principal ethnic groups. Its centerpieces ...
Last year, hundreds of people died in clashes between Dogon hunters and members of the largely nomadic Fula ethnic group ... ties to jihadist groups. The Fulanis claim that Mali's military ...
Mali has been struggling to control violence ... Armed with guns and machetes, the attackers appeared to be members of the Dogon ethnic group, which has a long history of tension with the nomadic ...