Bamako Encounters, the African Biennial of Photography, is underway in the capital, in a context of a major security crisis; 75 artists from Africa and the diaspora have been invited

Over 100 people are considered to have died precisely as a result of the extreme heat wave that has hit the country in recent days

The country holds the African heat record this April: earlier this month in Kayes, western Mali, 48,5 degrees were reached

Malian President Assimi Goita received the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for GNU Political Affairs, Mohamed Issa, who is leading the Libyan delegation to the meeting of the Alliance of African States held in Bamako

Mali's junta has disbanded the nation's main student organization, the Mali Student Association, accusing it of disrupting classes and provoking clashes and killings