New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

Mali has suspended licenses for artisanal gold mining due to several fatal accidents at mining sites. The move specifically ...

Mali, Africa's second-largest gold producer, has suspended the issuance of new mining permits to foreign companies. ・Mali ...

After months of negotiations, an agreement to settle the dispute between Mali’s ruling junta and Barrick Gold, the world’s ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reinforced its commitment to tackling the pressing security, ...

The relationship between France and Nigeria has no doubt, assumed a stronger dimension in the last one year, a development ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins — our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago — ...

Mali is suspending the granting of new artisanal mining permits to foreigners, after a couple of accidents in recent weeks ...

Mali has just launched West Africa’s first two lithium mines, a sector the government is betting on despite falling prices.

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all ...

New f unding for the HIV project implemented by FHI360 – previously supported by U.S. funding - in Mali has been allocated. Once the funds are deployed, the project will be able to resume its ...

Spanning three countries, the vast W-Arly-Pendjari Complex is being used to facilitate organised crime, terrorism and local conflicts.