As Goodluck Jonathan prepares to leave office, it is uncertain times for $5 billion movie industry
With school ruined and fears of Boko Haram's return still present, education ends for girls whose parents can't afford to send them elsewhere
Kidnapping of 276 teenage schoolgirls from their dormitory in Chibok, Nigeria, struck a chord outside the northeast that five years of murderous insurgency there had not
Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general and former military leader, says he is a born-again democrat, but those who remember his harsh military regime wonder if he is really a changed man
Campaigns continue online with parties trying to publicize their own achievements while making other side look bad
Militants who seized Mubi in October ruled by whim, conscripted by gunpoint, and imposed harsh punishments
Government acknowledges over a million people displaced in 2014 due to fight against Boko Haram insurgency
Four accused terrorists released in Bamako in days before release of French citizen Serge Lazarevic, who spent nearly three years as captive of al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb
Many have come back only to find their shops and homes vandalized and looted, themselves feeling unwelcome
New voucher system has become a hardship for Timbuktu residents, sometimes having to choose between power or food on the table
Rights groups file complaint on behalf of some of more than 2,000 victims of rape, other violence during 2012-2013 occupation of Gao and Timbuktu
When army fled, Seleka positioned selves as protectors of miners and collectors, demanding monthly payments
In the last 18 months of yet another armed conflict, as many as 10,000 children in the Central African Republic have been recruited by armed groups
Three people, all showing symptoms that should have led medical staff to suspect Ebola, all died at Pasteur Clinic, one of Bamako’s best hospitals
Local healers, religious leaders also have spread awareness of disease, how to guard against it
Two-year-old girl was treated at regional hospital in Kayes before dying of virus
Two-year-old who visited Guinea makes Mali sixth W. African country touched by massive outbreak
Traditionally, griots have been central in Malian society; They play prominent roles at baptisms, funerals and weddings
More than 30 United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and 90 wounded over past 15 months in attacks in the region
A doctor and a researcher helping to conduct clinical trials there speak with VOA about urgent situation, vaccine developed by US NIH and GlaxoSmithKline
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