EditorialQatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani receives Abdallah Diop, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali, Doha, Qatar - 16 Aug 2023
EditorialFrench Foreign Legion soldiers with a counterterrorism operation known as Operation Barkhane in northeastern Mali in February 2020. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialFrench Foreign Legion troops patrolling in northeastern Mali near the border with Niger, on Feb. 17, 2020, as part of Operation Barkhane. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialAlan Bacon and Mali Jeffers, who founded GANGGANG to showcase the work of Black visual artists in Indianapolis and across the country, at the Butter art fair in Indianapolis, Sept. 3, 2022. (Cheney Orr/The New York Times)
EditorialActing Prime Minister of Mali Abdoulaye Maiga delivers remarks at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2022. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialOusmane Sarmoye Ascofare carefully photographs a page at the headquarters of SAVAMA-DCI, an organization that works to preserve the Timbuktu manuscripts in Bamako, Mali, on March 11, 2022. (Nicolas Remene/The New York Times)
EditorialEl Bachir Thiam, who posts messages critical of the French role in Mali on social media, in Bamako, Mali, March 15, 2022. (Nicolas Remene/The New York Times)