A woman is dead after a migrant boat sunk in the southern Mediterranean overnight, while 87 people were saved by a Tunisian fishing vessel, sources said on Monday. The boat sank around 45 miles from ...

A Mali court ruled Monday that western gold mines held by Canadian giant Barrick would be managed for six months by an ...

Mali’s military government has started seizing gold stocks of the Canadian mining company Barrick as part of a legal battle over the share of revenue owed to the West African state, according to ...

Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal. Several livestock markets in Mali's capital will be closed for security reasons following a deadly attack by al-Qaida-linked militants in Bamako earlier ...

Two of the first putsches were in Mali, Senegal’s biggest trading partner. Then came one in another neighbour, Guinea. A failed attempt in next-door Guinea-Bissau followed (see map).

Mali’s announcement follows another rebuke of Ukraine by neighboring Senegal, which also accused the country of supporting July’s attack. Over the weekend, Senegalese authorities summoned ...

Officals in Niger say armed men have killed 34 soldiers in western Niger near the tri-state border with Mali and Burkina Faso ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye waves as he walks along with Mali's junta leader Assimi Goita in Bamako, Mali May 30, 2024. Senegal's Presidency/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing ...

Senegal has suspended mining activities along the Falémé river, which forms part of its southeastern border with Mali, in a bid to preserve the environment and protect public health. However ...

Can Senegal’s Faye play peacemaker and help a splintered West Africa bloc? Experts say ECOWAS’s tensions with Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso could roll back years of regional diplomacy and ...

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with Ousmane Diallo, a researcher at Amnesty International, about the state of democracy in Senegal, amid government crackdowns on human rights and political opposition.

Air Senegal Flight HC301 to Bamako, Mali, which was operated by another local airline, Transair, was taking off with 85 people on board, including two pilots and four crew members, ...