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SEGOU, Mali - Listeners swayed as the celebrated ... coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa. Tens of thousands of people from Mali and elsewhere in the region flock each ...

At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali Saturday, authorities and local sources told AFP. Mali is one of Africa's leading gold producers ...

Fighting alongside Malian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries have massacred civilians and burned their villages in northern Mali, ...

Mali is suspending the granting of new artisanal mining permits to foreigners, after a couple of accidents in recent weeks ...

Mali and its neighbours have for more than a decade battled militant groups allied to Islamic State and al-Qaeda while ...

Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday ... common activity across much of West Africa and has become more lucrative ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many ... this year in the French-speaking West African country, which is one of Africa’s ...