As disputes continue between Barrick and the government of Mali over the Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex, Barrick says that ...

Its splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), instead prefers to impose taxes on local livestock farmers, said Nigerian GI-TOC researcher Kingsley Madueke. In the central Sahel - ...

In the central Sahel -- Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso -- the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) dominates the illicit trade due to the vast territory under its ...

Musa was asleep in the village of Dusuman in northeast Nigeria when he was awoken by a sharp burst of gunfire and Boko Haram stole his main source of livelihood -- his livestock. "They came at about ...