Mali was part of three successive powerful and wealthy west african empires that controlled trans-saharan trade: The ghana empire (for which ghana is named), the mali empire (for which mali is … Mali’s humanitarian crisis deepened in september as violence, displacement, and the collapse of basic services left women and girls at growing risk.

Mali is a landlocked country in the interior of western africa. More than half of it lies in the sahara, the largest hot desert in the world. The central parts of mali are in the sahel, a transition zone between …