A dozen Chinese tourists, armed with their cameras, are capturing the sights, standing on sandstone cliffs looking over dusty plains 1500 feet below. The sky is clear: in the distance, hundreds of ...

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 ...

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Inside the Sankore Mosque, Timbuktu, Mali, 2002. (Photo by Wade Davis/Getty Images) A dozen Chinese tourists, armed with their cameras, are capturing the sights, standing on sandstone cliffs looking ...

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 ...