The singer died at his home on Tuesday night, his family said Algerian-born singer Rachid Taha has died of a heart attack at home in Paris aged 59, his family said. Taha was born on Algeria's ...

Manu Chao’s reputation stands on a few solo albums and, before that, his career with the band Mano Negra. Active from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Mano Negra mixed rai, ska and punk into an ...

Every Saturday Morning we get the day going with artists such as Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, The Mahotella Queens, Lura, Diblo Dibala, Rachid Taha, Marisa Monte, Eva María Ayllón, Tabou Combo, Kassav, ...

Targeting Rachid al-Ghannouchi, the leader of the Islamist Ennahda party, is an escalation in President Kais Saied’s crackdown on dissent. By Vivian Yee Tensions across the religious-secular ...

Sufian Taha is a Jerusalem-based journalist who has covered the West Bank for The Washington Post since 2002. He has reported on the most impactful events of the last two decades, including the ...

The BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008 celebrate their seventh year. The winning artists were announced on 10th April at a winner's ceremony in London, broadcast on Radio 3 on 11th April.

Abdelilah Benkirane, general secretary of the Justice and Development Party, made a series of incendiary remarks during the opening session of the party’s 18th youth forum. In his speech, Benkirane ...

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Their album Welcome To Mali (2008) was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 2010. Amadou lost his vision at the age of 16, while Mariam became blind at age 5 as a ...