The unit, known as the Rapid Intervention Battalion, is tasked with enhancing the operational capabilities of the Malian Armed Forces, improving their responsiveness to security threats, and ...

They are auteurs different, from two ends of the world, yet alike with a poetic and patient approach to cinema. Their quest is even more similar, both 61-year-o ...

A Burkinabe teenager who used artificial intelligence to post fake news of a French coup on Facebook got more than he ...

Canada's Barrick Mining has officially resumed operational control of its Mali gold mine, according to a company memo seen by ...

This article was published in this column on 4 Au­gust, 2023 following the coup d’état in Niger Re­public on 26 July, 2023. It is being reprinted because of the recent developments in Benin Republic: ...

Bill Bell — Willis Bell — was an American photographer who settled in Ghana, and we became close. He published “The Roadmakers” (1961) [a collaborative photo essay done with the playwright Efua ...

Food insecurity reaches catastrophic levels: South Sudan enters 2026 with a hunger crisis—28,000 people face catastrophic ...

Militia fighters killed at least 22 civilians and injured many more in an attack in late November 2025 on a village in ...

Barrick Mining said it has regained control of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine in Mali, and the government has pledged to return ...

MFWA's human rights day message draws attention to how intimidation and repression have become routine tools for silencing dissent across the region.