Since its founding in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been a cornerstone of regional ...

Barrick says a deal negotiated in February has been blocked by a small group of individuals for ‘personal or political ...

President John Dramani Mahama has extended a formal invitation to the military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso, and ...

Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an ...

Announcement - On 8 April 2025 in Abidjan, the Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank Group welcomed Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, the president of the Economic Community of West African States ...

Canada-headquartered Barrick Gold on Wednesday issued a sharp rebuke to the government of Mali as tensions over taxes ...

In 2009, the Malian government handed out a large area of land for an irrigated sugarcane plantation. Hundreds of farmers ...

Mali has ordered the closure of Canadian miner Barrick Gold's Bamako office, escalating a long-running dispute over tax arrears. The move follows the seizure of three tons of gold from Barrick's Loulo ...

Malian authorities have shut the Canadian miner Barrick Gold's office in the capital Bamako over the alleged non-payment of taxes, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, in the latest ...

As disputes continue between Barrick and the government of Mali over the Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex, Barrick says that acceptance of an agreement which was worked out in February “would unlock ...

France was recently asked to leave Chad, and its relations in central and West Africa are increasingly weak. With Russian ...

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying ...