The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds ...

In one photo, the wreckage of a helicopter lies in between the ruins of mud houses, and in another a military ... Wagner ...

Through the story of a mason in Djenne Komusa Tenapo and his family this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali The environmental genius of these ancient ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Unless you have been in hibernation for the past few weeks you may have noticed that making the news has been the two-month-old female pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng (Bouncy Pork) which has been ...

But these could be lost. The 2,000 or so mud houses of Djenné form some of the most iconic images of Mali. Inhabited since 250 BC, Djenné was a market town and an important link in the trans ...

Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An ...

Though the streets become rivers of mud when it rains ... Arafat clasped hands on the White House lawn, my Air Afrique plane was approaching Bamako, Mali, revealing corrugated-zinc shacks at ...

Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali ... He builds houses for the middle class, shops for ...

I asked him why the Mali army did not mount an offensive against the terrorists. He pointed the red ember of his cigarette toward a cluster of houses a ... of ramshackle mud-brick buildings.

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds ...