Feb 8 (Reuters) - More than 50 people were killed near Mali's northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said.

BAMAKO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded ...

(Reuters) - Two former company executives with inside knowledge of Barrick Gold's operations in West Africa are helping to drive Mali's demands for a payment of around $200 million from the ...

DAKAR, Senegal — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview ...

Trinidad and Tobago’s new coat of arms has been revealed. It features an image of a gold steelpan and two pan sticks, replacing the three ships of Christopher Columbus. In a newspaper ...

This is how designer Gillian Bishop responded yesterday to ne­gative feedback over the design of the pan on the updated coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago. Bishop, whose portfolio includes ...

For years, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. has seen its acquisition of a major gold mine in the West African nation of Mali pay off big time. But now, it’s become a big-time headache.

Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD)(TSX:ABX) followed through on Tuesday with its threat to suspend operations at its Loulo-Gounkoto complex in Mali after the military-led government moved gold stocks to a ...

Same-sex relationships are addressed in three articles. Not only is same-sex practice now criminal and punishable by law in Mali, but anyone seen to be favourable to homosexuality can also be ...