The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should take urgent action to stop the Malian junta’s crackdown on the ...

Barrick Gold will resume operations at its shuttered Loulo-Gounkoto mine in Mali once authorities in the country allow it to ...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries stuck to its oil-demand forecast after reaffirming plans to gradually hike output from April, but said U.S. President Trump's trade policy is ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

Mali's military says gunmen have attacked a convoy of vehicles escorted by the army, killing 25 civilians mostly gold miners.

Storyline: Many people in Niger have welcomed the country's departure from the Economic Community of West African States ...

Since Enyimba won successive CAF Champions League titles in 2003 and 2004, no Nigerian club has achieved the same feat let alone win the ’second tier’ CAF Confederation Cup. In fact, most Nigerian ...

Explore the history and legacy of the TWA terminal, once a symbol of the 'Golden Age of Flying' and now an abandoned landmark ...

A new mining law in Mali that raises taxes and seeks to hand over big stakes in assets to the state and local investors will ...

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

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

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