For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

We provide services to Canadians visiting and living in Mali. The Embassy of Canada in Bamako is following the situation and providing consular service for Canadians in Niger. Canadians in need of ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Over 1 billion people are impacted by neglected tropical diseases. Devex explores what WHO’s updated road map means and ...

Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States regional bloc, due to take ...

Mr. Albert Kofi Owusu, General Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), has said that the Agency’s new cooperation agreement with the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP) would provide a significant boost for ...

Nine bilateral cooperation and partnership agreements were signed, on Thursday in Salé, between member agencies of the Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA), on the occasion of the ...

The Sahel is grappling with unprecedented violence, as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked jihadist groups intensify their attacks on civilians and m ...

Earlier this month, soldiers swooped by helicopter into a vast mining complex in western Mali and made away with three tonnes ...

A Spanish man kidnapped by an armed group in the turbulent Algeria-Mali border region was heading home on Wednesday as Madrid ...

The Songhoy are an ethnicity living along the Niger River in northern Mali, speaking the language of Songhai (two spellings that are often used interchangeably). Songhoy music has long been a staple ...