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Nigers self-appointed military government has temporarily suspended the granting of new mining licences and ordered an audit of the sector, the mines ministry said.... -January 25, 2024 at 03:33 am EST - MarketScreener

BAMAKO -The death toll from last weeks accident at an artisanal gold mine in southwest Mali has risen to more than 70, state radio said on Thursday.... -January 25, 2024 at 10:31 am EST - MarketScreener

BAMAKO -The death toll from last weeks accident at an artisanal gold mine in southwest Mali has risen to more than 70, state radio said on Thursday.... -January 25, 2024 at 10:31 am EST - MarketScreener

More than 40 artisanal gold miners were killed in southwest Mali last week after the shaft they were working in collapsed, Malis mines ministry said on Wednesday....

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged $45 million in additional financing to help fight conflict and bring stability to coastal West Africa, where insecurity linked to jihadist insurgencies has increased in recent years. Blinken is on the second stop of a four-nation tour of Africa taking him to Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola from Jan. 21-26. Security challenges in West Africa, the fallout of a coup in Niger last year and Russia's growing influence in the ...

MONROVIA (Reuters) -Liberia's new president, Joseph Boakai, has recovered from an episode of heat-induced faintness that caused him to cut short his inauguration speech on Monday before being led off the podium, his party's spokesman said.

FREETOWN -A Sierra Leone high court on Wednesday allowed ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged this month with treason, to travel abroad on medical grounds.... -January 17, 2024 at 01:23 pm EST - MarketScreener

FREETOWN (Reuters) -A Sierra Leone high court on Wednesday allowed ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged this month with treason, to travel abroad on medical grounds. Koroma, 70, was charged with four offences for his alleged role in a failed military attempt to topple the West African country's government in November. There are concerns Koroma's indictment could stoke tension brought by a contentious election in which President Julius Maada Bio was reelected for a second term in J...

FREETOWN (Reuters) -A Sierra Leone high court on Wednesday allowed ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged this month with treason, to travel abroad on medical grounds.

Police in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday dispersed a small protest in the capital Kinshasa against the provisional results of the December legislative election, the latest flare-up in... -January 16, 2024 at 10:08 am EST - MarketScreener