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Three Indian citizens were kidnapped on July 1 during an armed assault on the Diamond Cement Factory in Kayes, western Mali.
A UK-funded report reveals that Mali’s social protection system is ill-equipped to handle compounding crises of climate shocks, conflict, and food insecurity. It calls for stronger disaster risk ...
What's the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted shows a close relationship between the two.We are researchers of ...
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 ...
Mali, along with the rest of the greater Sahel region, has been marred by seemingly endless violence and protracted insurgencies that have dragged on, to differing extents, since the country’s ...
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 ...
Gen Assimi Goïta says a long-awaited dream is becoming a reality/Mali presidency Mali's military junta has started building a gold refinery in partnership with a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran ...
Mali's military junta has started building a gold refinery in partnership with a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran Group. The project would embody the West African nation's assertion of its ...
MALI began construction of a new Russia-backed gold refinery on Monday, which the West African country’s military leader said would take it closer to asserting control over its natural resources, said ...
On the occasion of the Nordic Countries–UNESCO Partnership Visibility Week (June 16–20, 2025), the UNESCO Office in Mali acknowledges the exemplary and ongoing support of the Nordic countries in ...