MOUNTOUGOULA, Mali (AP) — For Aminata Doumbia, an 18-year-old Malian, the “Shifin ni Tagne” project was a path for her life dreams. A phrase meaning “our future” in the country’s main local language, ...

Mali, a country in West Africa, has removed French from being the official language of communication to being a working language following the implementation of its new constitution. The law was ...

In Mali, a few lines from the country's proposed draft constitution are fueling an ongoing debate about what its official language - or languages - should be. Since Mali gained independence from ...

Since Mali adopted a new constitution in 2023, the country has 13 official languages. Although French is no longer part of that list, the language of the former coloniser is still present everywhere, ...

Mali gained independence from France in 1960, yet even today French is the language of government business, used on road signs and in state TV broadcasts.