Four Moroccan truck drivers, kidnapped in January 2025 in northeastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, were released on the evening of Sunday, August 3, 2025, the government of the Republic ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers, who were kidnapped in January in West Africa by the Islamic State group and held captive for months, have been released, Malian ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso face the task of untangling themselves from West Africa’s main regional bloc, Ecowas, after ...

Mali's former prime minister was taken into pretrial detention on Friday after expressing solidarity in a media post with jailed critics of the military junta ruling the West African country, his ...

DAKAR, April 15 (Reuters) - Malian authorities have shut the Canadian miner Barrick Gold's (ABX.TO) office in the capital Bamako over the alleged non-payment of taxes, two sources close to the ...

Crowds near the site of Tuesday’s attack, when Islamist rebels killed at least 50 members of Mali’s armed forces in an assault on the capital, Bamako. Hadama Diakite/EPA, via Shutterstock ...

Bamako, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-French protesters took to the streets of Mali's capital on Friday waving Russian flags and burning cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel ...

Extremists armed with guns and grenades stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako, Mali, early Friday morning, shooting dozens. Witnesses said they went room by room, letting guests go if they could recite ...

A hostage is saved by agents of the security force at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako on Nov. 20, 2015. One American was killed in the attack, a State Department official said.

“Dancing the Twist in Bamako” is entirely, and not altogether persuasively, on the side of joy. Even the grim path of history — emphasized in an epilogue set 50 years later, during the rule ...