A national committee to chart Niger's future proposed Thursday that the junta-ruled country return to civilian administration in five years under new rules that strictly limit ...

A changing of the guard took place at the beginning of the ceremony to mark the transfer of security responsibilities to the ...

Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country on Thursday as the majority of French forces departed from ...

France returned on Thursday its sole military base in Ivory Coast to the west African nation’s authorities, marking an end to ...

France on Thursday handed its sole Ivory Coast military base back to its former colony. France has been present in the ...

Trailblazer of African cinema was the winner of the jury’s prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his film, Yeelen.

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84, Malian television announced Wednesday. The cause of ...

Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over ...

A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kéniéba district where the accident ...

Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said.

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