Four Moroccan truck drivers who had been seized by Islamic State militants in an area near the Burkina Faso-Niger border in January have been released "safe and sound", Mali's government said Monday.

NGOs in the violence-wracked Sahel region are dangerously caught between military juntas who accuse them of being spies, and ...

Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Sahel program and based in Bamako, told PassBlue: “The US seems to be ...

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) are taking steps to create a regional development bank: the Confederation Bank for ...

SPECIAL: Global Village kicks off a month-long feature celebrating kora legend Toumani Diabate with a program devoted to his ...

Russia has signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Niger and fellow members of West Africa's Alliance of Sahel States, deepening Moscow's strategic footprint across the continent. The deal ...

Top commodities for July include gold and manganese; Santa Fe Minerals takes top spot for the biggest monthly stock gain; ...

The World Bank’s Evaluation Insight Note highlights that successful fertility transitions in high-fertility countries require ...

The risk is that it rises into something much larger that then presents a much greater threat on the global scene,' on expert told Newsweek.

Orange Money’s 100 million active accounts will host JUMO’s AI credit engine, issuing $5–$500 loans repayable automatically from wallet balances. • Roll-out begins in Burkina Faso, then Mali and ...

A Malian court has detained and charged former Prime Minister Moussa Mara over a social media post criticising shrinking democratic space under military rule in the West African nation, his lawyer ...

Two jihadist attacks in northeastern Burkina Faso early this week killed "several dozen" soldiers and civilians, two security ...