Mali's military says armed men attacked a Mali community just over the border from Senegal. One expert called the development ...

At least nine villages in Feni have been flooded after two embankments of the Muhuri and Silonia rivers were breached after to continuous rain and mountain runoff. The embankment of the Silonia ...

One of the next major hurdles in Barrick Mining Corp.’s saga in Mali will be renewing a key gold mining license, after the state temporarily took over the vast Loulo-Gounkoto complex this week.

A dispute over mining proceeds has already seen Mali detain four Barrick employees and block gold exports from the mine, which the company shuttered in January. The standoff means the world’s No. 2 ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted on Tuesday, hurling a towering ash plume over 11 km high into the sky. Authorities raised the alert to the highest ...

Mali has initiated construction of a new gold refinery backed by Russia, marking a step towards the country’s goal of asserting greater control over its natural resources, according to a Reuters ...

Reinforcing the junta's ambition, Mali this week also broke ground on a major new gold refinery on the outskirts of the capital, Bamako. The facility, built in partnership with Russia's Yadran Group ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has said the exit of Burkina-Faso, Mali and Niger, the three Alliance of Sahel States from the West African regional bloc, Economic Community ...

Earlier this month, a massacre on another Dogon village, Sobane Da, killed 35 people, stirring fears of tit-for-tat attacks in a region with an ethnic patchwork. "This time is the same as Sobane Da: ...

Tuareg associations in Mali and Burkina Faso have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against their nations' armies and the Russian paramilitary group, Africa Corps.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A judge in Mali on Monday ordered the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold to be placed under provisional administration in an ongoing dispute with the military government ...