FRANCE HAS finally ended its 65-year army presence in Senegal. The European country officially handed back Camp Geille, its ...

By Portia Crowe and Divya Rajagopal DAKAR/TORONTO (Reuters) -A Malian military helicopter airlifted gold from the Barrick-owned Loulo-Gounkoto complex on Thursday, three sources said, days after ...

Sahel crisis is ‘only one characteristic’ of region and does not capture whole reality, says UN Secretary-General's Special ...

The company has offered to pay $370 million. Mali's military government previously arrested four senior executives of the Canadian mining company as part of the dispute. They are still being held.

Mali, along with neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for more than a decade battled an insurgency fought by armed groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group ...

MARKALA, Mali/DAKAR (Reuters) – A split emerged on Thursday in the alliance of Islamist militant groups occupying northern Mali, as French and African troops prepared an offensive aimed at dr… ...

DAKAR/TORONTO, May 14 (Reuters) - A court in Mali will hold a hearing on Thursday to consider a request made by Mali's military government to reopen Canadian miner Barrick's (ABX.TO) Loulo ...