DJENNE, Mali — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the ...

Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined ... world's largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in the ...