Civil society group says strike on market in north Mali kills 18
Bloodshed has continued in the north of Mali where the junta-led government has spent over a decade fighting Tuareg separatist...
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Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire urge Sahel states to rejoin ECOWAS
Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have asked that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger rejoin the Economic Community of West African States...
Mali: Foreign artisanal gold miners licenses suspended
Mali announced it will suspend licenses for foreign artisanal gold mining companies after a string of fatal accidents. According to...
Mali suspends gold mining for foreign companies after accidents
Mali announced it will be suspending licenses for foreign companies mining artisanal gold on March 5th, due to a series...
Sahel: the new global centre of terrorism
The Sahel region in Africa is now the global centre of terrorism, according to a report by the Global Terrorism...
Mali: army investigates killing of civilians by its troops
Following allegations that some of its soldiers were involved in the killing of civilians, the Malian army has taken the...
Malian army says it is investigating reports of civilian killings
The Malian army is investigating the alleged killing of civilians by soldiers and Russian military contractors rare probe of human...
Barrick Gold signs agreement with Mali in hope to end dispute
Canadian mining company Barrick Gold has signed an agreement with the Malian government, ending an almost two-year dispute over its...
Barrick Gold agrees to end mining dispute with Mali
Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed an agreement with the military-led government of Mali to end an almost two-year-old dispute...
Malian army accused of killing 24 civilians
Malian soldiers, accompanied by Russian Wagner military contractors, have been accused by Tuareg-dominated groups of killing 24 civilians travelling north...
Dozens of illegal miners killed in Mali
Dozens of people, most of which were female, have been killed after the collapse of an illegal gold mine in...
Dozens killed in accident at illegal mine in Mali
Dozens of people, most of them women, have been killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on...
25 civilians killed in convoy ambush, according to Mali army
On February 7th, 25 civilian goldminers were killed in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern city of...
25 civilians killed in convoy ambush, says Mali army
25 civilians were killed and 13 others injured in an insurgent ambush of a military-escorted convoy near the city of...
Burkina Faso issues first new bloc passport
The ruler of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré became the first person to receive the new Alliance of Sahel States (AES)...
