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 ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania (AP) — Eager students from throughout west Africa raise their hands as teachers guide ... The route ...

More than 17 million people visited the North African Kingdom last year and the tourism industry ... forging deeper ties with ...

The Fulani’s ancestry links to North and West Africa, the Green Sahara period, and ancient Berber groups, shaped by migration ...

The incendiary films of the late pioneer of African cinema do not merely critique power but discern the social and political ...

Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD) (TSX: ABX) has reached an agreement with Mali to end the ongoing dispute over its mining assets in the West African country, Reuters reported, citing four people familiar ...

Cisse won the jury’s prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for “Yeelen” (“Brightness”), which draws on legends from west Africa’s Bambara people ... leaders in Mali – which declared ...

Military strongmen have silenced their critics and muzzled the media, threatening, arresting and exiling those who speak out ...

Announcement expected as soon as Thursday Barrick's stock rises on news Deal would see total payment of $438 million to Mali Feb ... in the West African country, four people familiar with the ...