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 ...

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

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 ...

Hero’s welcome Several days after the violence, Bathily was granted French citizenship by the president himself, something he says had been a dream since his childhood in a small village on the ...

The government says that of about 290 000 diamond traffickers in the country, 90 000 are foreigners, mostly from the DRC, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Discover the Truth Step into a world where the ...

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children are paying a hidden price for the country’s gold rush ...

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 ...

DAKAR - France has officially transferred control of the "Contre-Amiral Protet" military base to Senegal, the third military ...