Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

DAKAR, Senegal — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French ... upended by military coups and ...

After a closed-door military ceremony a day earlier, Deby addressed Chadian forces and diplomats at an event in ... in the ...

It’s a new sunrise for a fully sovereign Chad, determined to take charge of its own destiny,' says Mahamat Idriss Deby - Anadolu Ajansı ...

General Pascal Ianni, the commander of French forces in Africa ... on external support. Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have shifted toward Russia by signing military deals and inviting ...

In reaction to a protracted war with the army ... operations like the Loulo and Gounkoto mines, which are 80 percent owned by Barrick and 20 percent by the Malian government, the former French ...

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

Barrick Gold and Bamako have been at odds since the military-led government adopted a new extraction code in 2023 Read Full ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group’s leaders in northern Mali ...