Landslide kills several artisanal gold miners in southern Mali
A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...
Analysts consider ramifications of ECOWAS members’ exit
Junta-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso officially quit West African bloc after more than a year of diplomatic tensions ...
The Punch Newspapers14h
ECOWAS: Niger, Mali, B’Faso exit may worsen Sahel insurgency, ex-envoys warn
Former diplomats on Thursday warned that the withdrawal of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West ...
Chad officials say French troops have finally left after 70 years’ presence
Chad's President Field Marshal Mahamat Idriss Deby says this week’s departure of the last French troops from the central ...
The Africa Report6h
Tax hikes and tension: Battle over West Africa’s mining wealth
Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...
19 bodies found in vessel drifting in Caribbean Sea
A vessel drifting in the Caribbean Sea contained 19 badly decomposed bodies, at least some from Mali, authorities in the ...
Nigerian Tribune on MSN15h
Renewed Boko Haram attacks and foreign mercenaries
THE renewed attacks by armed bandit groups and the intensified violence by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa leave civilians in North-East ...
Al Jazeera on MSN7h
With France’s military influence in Africa gone, can it rely on soft power?
French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...
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Implications of conflict on vaccination in the Sahel region
The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...
Stella Dimoko Korkus' BLOG6h
ECOWAS Officially Announces The Withdrawal Of Burkina Faso, Mali, And Niger From The Organisation
The three countries, led by military governments, cited ECOWAS's alleged alignment with former colonial powers and failure to ...
Rebels may take Goma, DR Congo, plane crash in South Sudan
Africa correspondent Nabil Ahmed Rufai talks to Nathan about a plane crash in South Sudan, which killed 20 oil workers on board, the military governments of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have withdrawn ...