Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region—notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger—have put pressure on western ...

At least 48 people, most of them women, have reportedly died after an illegal open-pit gold mine collapsed in the western ...

Forty-two people, mostly women, were killed and many injured after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on ...

A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kenieba district where the accident occurred. It is the ...

The accident took place in an open-pit area people had gone into in search of gold. Informal mining is a common and dangerous ...

More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday. The collapse took ...

BAMAKO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Insurgents killed 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy ...

Rising gold prices are giving a boost to gold mining companies, and Barrick says it is making progress in its talks with Mali ...