Africa Heartbeat

ADF STAFF The wide, languid Niger River is Africa’s third-longest at 4,200 kilometers. It stretches in a boomerang shape from Guinea up as far north as Timbuktu, Mali, before dipping southward through Niamey, Niger, and ending in the…

ADF STAFF After more than a year of violence and instability, Malians walked to the polls and cast a vote for a more peaceful future. The vote in late July 2013 occurred without incident under the cover of heavy security. It was the…