The Northern Banded Groundling (Brachythemis impartita) has a pale cream pterostigma in both sexes and their eyes appear to be striped.
The female has a buffy abdomen and thorax, males are darker and mature males can be dark blue to black on the abdomen and thorax.
Males have bands on the outer wings from the node to just short of the pterostigma.

The Northern Banded Groundling looks very similar to the Southern Banded Groundling (Brachythemis leucosticta). 
Both species are widespread: B. leucosticta occupies most of tropical Africa and Madagascar, while B. impartita ranges north and south of the Sahara, and extends into Eurasia.
Until 2009, these two species were considered the same species.
Males Brachythemis impartita can be distinguished from males Brachythemis leucostita by the white veins near the wing tips.
Brachythemis leucosticta has dark veins near the wingtips.
In addition, in B. leucosticta the band around the pterostigma is much more dark en complete.

Both species occur in Mali.

Bamako area, Mali, 24 February 2010