Their offence? Being migrants from the region, they told reporters, regardless of whether they had legal residency papers. “We suffered there,” one woman told France’s TV5 Monde, a baby perched on her ...

Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

Mali owes more than $94 million to the entity managing a dam which also provides power to Senegal and Mauritania, and the ...

which cuts through Senegal’s gold belt and forms part of the border with Mali. But enforcement is weak as officials struggle to stem the influx of informal miners, many of whom arrive from ...

DAKAR - France has officially transferred control of the "Contre-Amiral Protet" military base to Senegal, the third military ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — United Nations experts on Wednesday urged Malian authorities to investigate reports of alleged summary ...