A Swiss citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Niger's city of Agadez, according to local authorities and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. This is the second citizen of a ...

Amadou Bagayoko and his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, rose from icons in Mali to international success over the last two ...

Alfousseini Togo, the editor of the weekly Le Canard de la Venise, was jailed on 9 April after being questioned by the ...

While Hausa is the predominant language spoken in Niger, French has held official status since the nation gained independence ...

Mali's 2023 Mining Code was applied to the Bougouni lithium mine project. Under the memorandum of understanding signed on the occasion, Bamako required a $15 million payment, split into two equal ...

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned about the abduction of Malian activist Alou Badra Sacko, recently appointed president of the movement Touche pas à mon Argent (Hands off ...

State revenue from gold mining companies in Mali jumped by 52.5% last year, helped by an increase in tax collection and dividend payments after a new mining code entered into force, a mines ministry ...

Having recalled their ambassadors and closed their respective airspaces, Algiers and Bamako now find themselves in a climate ...

Moussa Sacko, 25, a Malian deported from France, where he had lived since he was a young child, drives his motorbike on a ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Relations between Algeria and the military alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger plunged to historic ...

BAMAKO — Grammy-nominated Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who won global fame by moulding traditional West African sounds ...

A commander of a separatist rebel coalition operating in Mali's volatile north was arrested in Niger last week, local ...