In recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, ...

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The al-Qaida-linked JNIM extremist group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attack on several Malian army positions in the country's west and central regions. One position was in Diboli, ...

Mali's mining code change in 2024 puts pressure on foreign companies in the country.The Loulo-Gounkoto complex, one of the largest gold mines in the world currently owned by the Canadian company ...

Mali has completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines abandoned by their previous owners, the government announced at the weekend, but questions remain over how any untapped value can be ...

Ibrahim Traoré counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

Ghanaian authorities want miners to cover deployment costs, estimated at GH₵250,000 ($18,116) per contingent daily of under ...

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A year after the abduction of journalist Serge Oulon, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling on Saïdou Maïga, the ...