Malian government has announced the suspension of new artisanal mining permits to foreign nationals following a series of ...

The West African country announced that it would leave the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. It comes after the ...

Niger was suspended from the group after a military coup toppled elected president Mohamed Bazoum in July 2023.

Mali is suspending the granting of new artisanal mining permits to foreigners, after a couple of accidents in recent weeks ...

Mercenaries with Russia’s Wagner Group, fighting alongside Malian soldiers, have assaulted women, massacred civilians and ...

Russia’s Wagner Group, fighting alongside Malian soldiers, has been accused of massacring civilians, burning villages, and ...

A series of bombshell indictments in Brazil have implicated former president Jair Bolsonaro and his allies in multiple failed ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

The trend towards resource nationalism is most advanced in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s “coup belt” and a zone increasingly aligned with Russia and hostile to the West.

Trade between Nigeria and Niger Republic rebounded strongly in 2024, with exports from Nigeria soaring by 77.12% to N82.38 ...

Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked to a "gruesome" massacre in a western city that left ...