The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

People cannot go to Mali's Dogon region to witness its spectacular ancient culture, so the Dogons brought their dancing, ...

Two former company executives with inside knowledge of Barrick Gold's operations in West Africa are helping to drive Mali's ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national union of gold ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

A government plain in the African nation of Mali to remove state support for Catholic schools could harm inter-religious ...

Thousands of people rallied ... Community of West African States, ECOWAS, which is due to take effect today. Their imminent departure from the bloc, alongside Mali, has fractured the region ...

Forty-Five People Arrested in Africa in Anti-Terrorism and Drugs Stings ... a suspected Islamic State member at the borders between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, and a North African suspected ...

In response to Reuters' detailed questions, Mamou said that for decades gold production had not benefitted the people of Mali as it should have. Mali is Africa's second-largest gold producer.

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.