SAFO, Mali — Most of the students had never seen their native language in its written form until recently. Now, they were eagerly sounding out the words appearing on the ThinkPad laptops before ...

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 ...

The head of the country’s junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, removed French as one of Mali’s official languages in June last year, ...