BAMAKO, July 10 (Reuters) - Cotton output in Mali is expected to shrink more than 40% year-on-year to 400,000 tonnes in the 2020/21 season after farmers avoided growing the crop due to a ...

BAMAKO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Mali's cotton harvest is expected to drop 75% this year, to 176,200 tonnes from 700,000 tonnes last year, because of a pandemic-induced price slump that forced farmers to ...

BAMAKO, Mali — Thousands marched Friday in the streets of Mali’s capital to celebrate the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, as the West African nation’s political opposition backed the ...

Former Defense Minister and retired Col. Maj. Bah N’Daw, right, is sworn into the office of transitional president, and Col. Assimi Goita, left, head of the junta that staged the Aug. 18 coup, is ...

(Bamako) – Mali’s military junta should fully respect human rights and judicial independence and support efforts to ensure accountability for past atrocities, including those involving the security ...

A French aid worker who was kidnapped in the West African country of Mali has been released after almost four years in captivity, the Malian president’s office announced Thursday. Armed Islamist ...

Canada’s B2Gold is expanding its gold-mining operations in Mali, undeterred by a military coup and a growing Islamist insurgency in the West African nation. Mali’s military ousted President Ibrahim ...

Around 300 British troops have arrived in the west African country of Mali. Presented as a contribution to the UN’s peacekeeping mission, it is part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s efforts to ...

The Malian government has approved the construction of a 93 MW solar photovoltaic power plant in Touna, in southern Mali. The €106 million solar facility will be built by UAE-based independent power ...

It is the day of the Sacrifice. On this Eid-el-Kebir, the crowd is crowding the great mosque of Bamako. Everywhere in the city, the mood is festive, and the men who have come to worship are in a ...

A COUP D’ETAT is almost never good news. In Mali the descent into violence accelerated dramatically in March 2012, when soldiers mutinied and launched attacks on the presidential palace, the state ...