Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali known for its towering mud-brick mosque, but he now ekes out a living driving an old motorcycle taxi in Bamako. Mali's ...

Mali's once robust tourism sector has dried up in recent years after an iron-fisted junta came to power in back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021 and as Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists waged a campaign of ...

People replastered the Great Mosque of Djenne, one of Mali's major tourist draws, in June 2025 (OUSMANE MAKAVELI) Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali ...