Mali
Τρεις Νεκροί από Ένοπλη Ομηρία σε Ξενοδοχείο Πρώην Γαλλικής Αποικίας στο Μάλι
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Uchronia: Σε Αυτή την Ιστορία ο Κολόμβος Δεν Ανακάλυψε την Αμερική
Ένα διαφορετικό, «αφρικανικό» project από έναν φωτογράφο και έναν μουσικολόγο.
Machetes and Motorbikes at Mali's Sangue-Mo Fishing Festival
Unless your ideal vacation involves drinking far too much in a dirty brothel, there aren't many reasons to visit San, a town in the Ségou region of Mali. In fact, most guide books actively tell you to skip it. But once a year, the people of this truck...
Al Qaeda Wants Africa
A soldier called our attention to a severed head facedown in the dust. “Is it Malian, do you think?” The gendarme kicked it over and studied the face. Dark blood dripped from its mouth. A fly crawled up its nose. “Nah, maybe Algerian or Nigerien."
Africa's Biggest Film Festival Isn't Scared of a Little Jihad
While French troops were killing Islamists in Mali last month, thousands of film fans were gathering just a few hundred miles away in Burkina Faso to celebrate the best of African cinema. The festival has been running since 1969, but they still haven’t...
Religiosity Is Killing in Mississippi
Fifty-eight percent of Mississippi's residents describe themselves as “very religious.” The state also lays claim to both the highest teen birthrate and the highest HIV rate in young adults. In this experience we call life, there are plenty of...
What Are the French Really Up to in Mali?
When it comes to going to war, it’s not too often we get to see France beat the US to the punch. But in the case of Mali, the troubled north African country with a serious jihadi problem, the French are playing the usual American role of global...
World Peace Update
What with India and Pakistan risking a nuclear war by trading bullets all last week, it became obvious that the world would have no problem falling back into its comfort zone of terrorizing itself in the new year.
Global Fear League 2013
It's time yet again for our annual Global Fear League, your guide to which countries will be held up by our media as bastions of terror this year—the year the world finally gives in and surrenders itself to the delicious prospect of all-out war.
Pre-Muslims
One night I was at a Restaurant in Mali and a drunk old donso mimed shooting me with a pistol.