The stars came thick and fast on day three of competition. Former French world champion and category queen, Romane Dicko ...

The real mobiliser - the figure who wields the critical crowd pulling power - is an imam, Mahmoud Dicko. He is the central player in this challenge to a president who looks complacent and bereft ...

"We lost all our livestock in the drought in the 1970s and had to move to the city," Rabiatou Aguissa says as she crouches on a plastic stool in a dusty walled compound in Timbuktu. A mother of ...