Following the reissue of Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko’s New Ancient Strings, in January Chrysalis will release Diabaté’s debut album, 1988’s Kaira. Toumani Diabaté, who sadly passed away in ...

"He played those 21 strings with love." That's the great American banjo player Bela Fleck talking about his duets with Toumani Diabaté of Mali — including the crowd-pleaser "Dueling Banjos." Fleck ...

Bamako, Mali: Mali swore in a new high court on Thursday that will be charged with hearing a case of high treason against former President Amadou Toumani Toure, who was toppled in a coup in 2012, ...

As the the coup d'etat in Mali enters its second day, international observers fear the country's drift from democracy will become permanent. For almost two decades, Mali has been a beacon of democracy ...

He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society. By Giovanni Russonello Toumani Diabaté, a ...

Minister Mumbengegwi was attending an African Union meeting together with several other African dignitaries when the soldiers announced Thursday they had toppled the government of President Amadou ...

All of this was already obvious when he first came to Bristol in 1987, to take part in a number of WOMAD-sponsored activities which were the subject of a Channel 4 film I was making at the time.

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali lost more than 152 billion CFA francs ($261 million) to fraud and mismanagement in the two years before ex-president Amadou Toumani Toure was toppled in a 2012 army coup, ...

Mali's transitional President Bah N'Daw confirmed Toure's death on Tuesday in a statement in which he offered his condolences to the family. N'Daw said Toure was a major player in Malian democracy, ...