BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening the ...

The accident took place in an open-pit area people had gone into in search of gold. Informal mining is a common and dangerous ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

A gold mine has collapsed in the east of Mali, leaving a preliminary death toll of 42 and many injured, according to Malian ...

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

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.

On January 2, 2025, security forces arrested opposition member Seydina Touré in Segou, central Mali. He is charged with "incitement to public disorder" and "attempting to discredit the state," among ...

Currently, around 600 million people in Africa live without electricity, despite Africa's considerable renewable energy ...

which is known as one of the three gold producing countries in Africa. In January last year, an unregulated gold mine collapsed in Mali, killing more than 70 people near the capital Bamako. In recent ...

BAMAKO, Mali — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening ...