This stark and stunning landscape; rugged and harsh, is home to the cliff-dwelling Dogon people ... smoke and discuss matters of the village. Women are banned, and instead have special houses ...

Halfway up a cliff in southern, central Mali, the sounds of a modern Dogon village float up from the brush-filled plain below. To reach the tiny, isolated villages of the Dogon, most foreign ...

The ancient walking trails that connect each Dogon village with the next are now frequented ... ancient cocoon-like cemeteries attached themselves to the cliff face in centuries past, while ...

Mahmadou, who came from southern Mali and who had rarely visited Dogon ... top of the village a huge sandstone overhang loomed; beneath it was a series of abandoned, ancient cliff dwellings ...

Originally they were cliff-dwellers, and now they live mostly on the plateau above the escarpment ... As we unpacked, a sudden screech signaled the first of many barnyard-animal sacrifices to feed our ...

During our recent trip to Mali, we visited a village particularly renowned for ... One day we hiked to three Dogon cliff villages: Youga Na, Youga Dougourou and Youga Piri, which we were told ...

On Monday, a security source said the Dogon village had been “virtually wiped out”. The killing came less than three months after nearly 160 members of the Fulani ethnic group were slaughtered ...

About 100 people were killed during an overnight attack on an ethnic Dogon village in central Mali, a local mayor told Reuters on Monday. Fighting between Dogon hunters and Fulani herders has ...

Primary School Tanouan Ibi is a sustainable building which stands at the edge of a village in the vast plain of the Dogon country in Mali. The school consists of three 7 x 9 meters classrooms for ...