In celebration of Black History Month, the Regina Public Library played host to two different exhibits in February. One is ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

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

BAMAKO, Mali — Mali’s army said it’s investigating soldiers who were accused by separatist Tuareg rebels of killing at least ...

Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire. His reign in the 14th century is often regarded as the height of Mali's ...

At a time that well-meaning Nigerians, including some Muslims, are calling for the secularisation of the Nigerian state and the dismantling of religious laws in the Hausa speaking Muslim North of ...

This marks a significant milestone in the restructuring of France's military presence in Africa ... former French empire. In ...

The victims had climbed into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth around them caved in, a gold miner's union leader told Reuters. Reports of the exact ...

Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said. The accident took place near the town of Kenieba ...

Malian authorities have been under mounting pressure to contain unregulated mining of the precious metal in the western African country ... a goldmine in southern Mali and many went missing ...