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. Cisse ...

Beyond warnings and war stories lies another Mali—where blind kings hold court and traditional village life continues as it has for centuries.

When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...

BAMAKO, Mali — A ferry boat trying to land at a Niger River town in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali hit rocks and sank in an accident that left dozens of people dead, local officials and ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Going into the season with Super Bowl expectations, the revenge tour turned into a 6-11 season and a trip to Cancun for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Red Kingdom. The Chiefs ended ...

Travis Kelce's outfit was a perfect reflection of the mood surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs going into their 2025 NFL season finale against the Las Vegas Raiders. It was dark, somber, and modest. It ...

The Kansas City Chiefs' season was a disappointing one, to say the least. It did not go how anyone expected it to. It was a season of a lot of different things happening that just did not go their way ...

NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu continues his journey along West Africa's most ambitious urban corridor. In Togo, he meets the Nana Benz — icons of past prosperity in a region where opportunity is shifting.