Malian forces, which have been fighting an Islamist insurgency for years, say they have arrested a leading figure.

Traders and scholars from Europe, the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali ... It attracted scholars and visitors to Mali. People came from Ethiopia, Andalusia (southern Spain), Arabia ...

Suspected Islamic militants killed more than 20 people in a string of attacks on villages in central Mali's insurgency-hit ... The West African nation is battling armed groups with links to ...

Mali is one of Africa’s largest gold producers ... yet the economic benefits remain disproportionately small for the Malian people. For decades, foreign mining companies have extracted vast ...

Niger’s coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani accused neighbouring Nigeria of collaborating with France to destabilise ...

The Tuareg people are among the indigenous Berber groups populating the Sahara, in the south of Algeria and the north of Mali and Niger ... Community of West African States (Ecowas) in January ...

Military regimes in the Sahel have turned to tactics including arrests to assert control over critical mineral supplies ...

Leaders of the west African regional grouping Ecowas approved the long-awaited withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ...