A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. ADDING DATES AND LOCATION This photo taken Jan. 21, 2025, shows Spanish hostage Navarro Giane Gilbert posing ...

On Tuesday, the UN in collaboration with Mali’s transitional authorities, launched a $770 million humanitarian needs and response plan in the capital Bamako to support millions of people across the ...

A T-72 tank arriving in Mali's capital Bamako. Russia has delivered over 100 military vehicles to Mali, including tanks, trucks, and infantry fighting vehicles. It is suspected the shipment may have ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,941,015-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Hobby Tunneling What it’s about: An old-fashioned hole diggin’! By gar, it’s been a ...

For years, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. has seen its acquisition of a major gold mine in the West African nation of Mali pay off big time. But now, it’s become a big-time headache.

Barrick Gold Corporation has halted its operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks worth $245 million Cdn from the company's Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex. The military-led ...

Mali has been plagued by Islamist armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in recent years and attacks against civilians have become commonplace. The news of the ...

An ongoing dispute over ownership stakes in Barrick's operation in Mali has led to the arrest of mining officials, the government's gold seizure and the company's shutdown of its mine For years ...

(Bloomberg) -- Barrick Gold Corp. said it’s suspending mining operations in Mali after the government started removing gold from the nation’s biggest mine in the latest escalation of a months-long ...

Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD)(TSX:ABX) followed through on Tuesday with its threat to suspend operations at its Loulo-Gounkoto complex in Mali after the military-led government moved gold stocks to a ...