Known as “the blind couple from Mali," the duo of Amadou Bagayoko, who lost his vision at age 16, and Mariam Doumbia, who became blind at age 5 as a consequence of untreated measles, rose to ...

Around 1.1 billion people live with vision loss, including blindness, and 90 per cent of this is preventable or treatable. In ...

has long struggled to integrate blind and partially sighted people. According to eye care charity Sightsavers, around 170,000 people in Mali are thought to be blind. The 47-year-old Ndiaye was ...