BY MAYOWA KAMARUDEEN IBRAHIM The Central Sahel region, encompassing Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, has long been ...

In a series of coordinated attacks in northern Burkina Faso, over 100 people were killed. Among the victims are soldiers, ...

Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say ...

A jihadi group aligned with Al-Qaida known as Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, which is active in the Sahel ...

An armed group has attacked an artisanal gold mining site in southern Mali, one of Africa’s largest gold-producing countries.