Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

Mali owes more than $94 million to the entity managing a dam which also provides power to Senegal and Mauritania, and the debt has become "a question of life and death" for its ability to continue ...

Their offence? Being migrants from the region, they told reporters, regardless of whether they had legal residency papers. “We suffered there,” one woman told France’s TV5 Monde, a baby perched on her ...

A government official says the president of Mali’s transitional government has signed a decree dissolving political parties ...

which cuts through Senegal’s gold belt and forms part of the border with Mali. But enforcement is weak as officials struggle to stem the influx of informal miners, many of whom arrive from ...

According to a statement from the U.N. humanitarian agency, the bodies were found near the Kwala military camp in western Mali’s Koulikoro region between April 21 and 22, and are suspected to be ...

Marie, played by Franco-Senegalese actress Aissa Maiga - runs an evangelical church from her living room and has a central role in the community of migrants from Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal and ...