The White House budget office has put forward a proposal to cut funding for United Nations peacekeeping missions, pointing to ...

Barrick says a deal negotiated in February has been blocked by a small group of individuals for ‘personal or political ...

A dispute between Canadian miner Barrick Gold and Mali's government escalated after officials closed its office in the capital and threatened to put its operations in the west African nation under ...

Malian authorities have shut the Canadian miner Barrick Gold's office in the capital Bamako over the alleged non-payment of ...

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed.

The sudden dismantling of USAID -- the country's main foreign development arm -- is unravelling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, ...

A new world order is emerging. The United States is no longer the sole force shaping global events; countries like China, ...

Niger Drops French As Official Language After Mali, Burkina Faso | Firstpost Africa | N18G Niger has officially designated ...

Yet another conflict story unravels from Tin Zaouatine, a desert region in Mali's far north-east. The same region that had witnessed an unprecedented defeat of Russian mercenaries who were ambushed by ...

Genetic insights into the Fulani people not only illuminate their biological history but also enrich our understanding of ...

But his spirit lives on in Burkina Faso’s latest military ruler, Ibrahim Traoré, an army captain who took power in a coup in ...