"They belong to a powerful, formidable, brave and numerous people; a true people like so many others the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. The men who ...

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

From being a rock band player who toured the world, Iyad ag Ghali became the most dreaded al Qaeda in the Western Sahara who ...

Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...