Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burkina Faso's President Captain Ibrahim Traore, walks alongside Mali's President General Assimi Goita during the Alliance of ...

Bamako (AFP) – Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali known for its towering mud-brick mosque, but he now ekes out a living driving an old motorcycle taxi in ...

The United States is reshaping its approach to Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso as Russia expands the footprint of its Africa Corps across the Sahel region. Abdoulaye Diop, the foreign minister of Mali, ...

Nick Checker, the newly appointed head of the US State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, arrived in Bamako on Monday for an official visit, where Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop welcomed him.

The last rite of flight attendant Pinky Mali, who lost her life in the plane crash alongside Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in Maharashtra’s Baramati city, was performed on Thursday (January 29, ...

The US has declared a stark policy shift towards three West African countries which are battling Islamist insurgents and whose military governments have broken defence ties with France and turned ...

Spanning the area from Senegal to Eritrea, situated between the Sahara to the north and the African tropics to the south, the Sahel region has long faced severe, complex security and humanitarian ...