Five years after taking power by force, Mali's junta leader, General Assimi Goita, has abandoned his promise of a democratic ...

Mali's military says armed men attacked a Mali community just over the border from Senegal. One expert called the development ...

Mali has completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines abandoned by their previous owners, the government announced at the weekend, but questions remain over how any untapped value can be ...

The International Criminal Court is reviewing a confidential legal report arguing that the Russia-linked Wagner group has ...

One of the next major hurdles in Barrick Mining Corp.’s saga in Mali will be renewing a key gold mining license, after the state temporarily took over the vast Loulo-Gounkoto complex this week.

A dispute over mining proceeds has already seen Mali detain four Barrick employees and block gold exports from the mine, which the company shuttered in January. The standoff means the world’s No. 2 ...

“We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have, maybe, what they’re supposed to have, maybe not,” Trump said at the time.

Mali has initiated construction of a new gold refinery backed by Russia, marking a step towards the country’s goal of asserting greater control over its natural resources, according to a Reuters ...

Mali’s Council of Ministers adopted a controversial bill granting the head of the military junta, General Assimi Goïta, an additional five years in power. According to the government’s cabinet ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A judge in Mali on Monday ordered Barrick Gold's Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex to be placed under provisional administration for six months in an ongoing dispute between the ...

Reinforcing the junta's ambition, Mali this week also broke ground on a major new gold refinery on the outskirts of the capital, Bamako. The facility, built in partnership with Russia's Yadran Group ...