Mali, Africa’s biggest cotton producer, plans to invest in clean energy and tackle issues like child labor and soil health to ...

Mali and Barrick Gold Corp.’s negotiations to end a protracted dispute over payments from the country’s biggest gold mine ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Like many other flags of African states, the central yellow star emblem symbolizes diversity and equality within the country's various ethnic groups. Mali's national flag features vertical stripes ...

LAGOS - The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the bloc following their withdrawal last year. Read ...

Thousands of people rallied Tuesday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A landslide engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them, the governor’s office of the Koulikoro region in the West African country said ...

Prior to Wednesday's shake-up, the bloc had 15 members, including states like Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

“As far as we know, [she has been] transferred to Mali and handed over to an Islamic State group offshoot,” he said. Kidnappings have rarely been reported in Algeria in recent years but Africa ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist armed ...

Junta-led countries Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa's main political and trade group Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday after more than a ...