Mali

The country's ministry of security says its forces are responding to a deadly attack at Le Campement Kangaba, just outside Mali's capital. Officials there say at least two people are dead.

It's called Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention. And so far, the results have been remarkable.

Ahmed al-Faqi al-Mahdi was on trial in The Hague for his role in the deliberate destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu. The radical Islamist was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The country is still recovering from an Islamist insurgency in 2012, NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports. An attack in a central town killed 17 soldiers Tuesday.

His death marks the end of a remarkable era in African and world photography.

This year, the Biennale of Photography is all about "Telling Time" — and it comes at a telling time for the host country of Mali.

Three new cases have raised questions about how the virus can suddenly reappear in a place where it had previously been eradicated.

Sjaak Rijke had been seized in Timbuktu along with two other men in November 2011. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders calls it an end to a "terrible period of uncertainty and grief."