West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to ...

By the early 2000s, West Africa appeared to be turning a corner. Multi-party elections had replaced decades of ...

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has clarified circumstances surrounding one of its aircraft currently grounded in Burkina Faso, dismissing claims that it violated the country’s airspace. In a statement ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly a decade after the West African ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

Barrick Mining Corp. has agreed to a 244 billion CFA francs ($430 million) settlement with Mali, as part of a deal to end a two-year dispute that shuttered one of the company’s most important gold ...

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Mali’s ruling junta and Canadian miner Barrick have reached an agreement to resolve a tax dispute involving one of Africa’s largest gold mining complexes ...

From the heart of Bamako to the distant rural outposts of Mali, a siege has been unfolding over the years throughout the country. And so multiple crises are gripping Mali: a military government under ...

TORONTO/DAKAR, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Barrick Mining (ABX.TO), opens new tab and Mali's government have reached a verbal agreement in principle to resolve their dispute over the Loulo-Gounkoto gold mining ...