Burkina Faso has awarded an industrial mining licence to Russian mining company Nordgold for the Niou gold deposit in the ...

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The tri-border region has long been plagued by extremist violence. Just last month, a jihadi group attacked a village there, leaving 44 civilians dead, an attack the army attributed to the Islamic ...

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Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The attack took ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers were killed in a surprise attack in the Sahel region, near Niger's tri-border area with Mali and ...

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Pope Francis’ funeral will be attended by dozens of heads of state, monarchs, foreign ministers, and other leaders from ...

Burkina Faso has awarded an industrial mining licence to Russian company Nordgold for the Niou gold deposit, aiming to boost ...

Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to ...

Social critic VeryDarkMan has revealed those behind the plot to terminate Burkina Faso's president, Ibrahim Traore. He calls ...