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Barrick Reaches Deal With Mali Unions to Avert Strike at Loulo-Gounkoto as Government Tightens Grip on Gold
Barrick Mining has signed a new collective bargaining agreement with unions at its Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex in western Mali, averting strike action that...
Guinea-Bissau’s Ousted President Embalo to Return From Exile and Run in December Election
Guinea-Bissau’s exiled former president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has announced that he will return to the country and run for president in an election...
Aaron Greenspan Accuses Tinubu of Lying to Court Over 1993 Political Status in FOIA Case
Aaron Greenspan, who is pursuing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration, has accused President Bola Tinubu...
Nigeria Grows 2.3 Million Tonnes of Tomatoes and Still Spends $360 Million Importing Paste
Nigeria is Africa’s second-largest tomato producer. The country grows about 2.3 million tonnes of tomatoes every year, and its farmers account for roughly...
Burkina Faso Opens First Gold Refinery to Process Its Own Gold
Burkina Faso has opened its first gold refinery, a move the military government says will allow the country to process more of its...
Nigeria and Uganda Signed US Health Deals Giving Access to Medical Records as Ghana Rejected Similar Pact
Nigeria and Uganda signed health agreements with the United States in December 2025 that give Washington access to sensitive health data, pathogen specimens...
Niger Accuses France and Ukraine of Backing Proxies to Attack Its Territory in Fiery UN Speech
Niger’s representative at the United Nations General Assembly has accused France and Ukraine of leading a proxy war against his country, saying armed...
Sidya Touré, Guinea’s Former Prime Minister and Leading Opposition Figure, Dies in Paris at 81
Sidya Touré, a former prime minister of Guinea and one of the country’s most prominent opposition leaders, has died in Paris at the...
Burkina Faso Orders NGOs to Spend 80% of Budgets Locally as Russia Fills Void Left by West
Burkina Faso’s military government has adopted strict new regulations requiring non-governmental organisations to allocate at least 80 per cent of their total budgets...
Gambia’s FGM Ban Under Threat as Imam Abdoulie Fatty and MP Almameh Gibba Push to Make Cutting Girls Legal Again
Two men are leading the charge to overturn The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation, and if they succeed, the practice that has...
Senegal Signs $3.5bn Refinery Deal With Turkey’s Yamata to Process Local Crude, Target West African Fuel Market
Senegal’s state refiner, the Société Africaine de Raffinage (SAR), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkish company Yamata to build a second...
Tinubu Awards $7bn Ogun Deep Seaport Deal to Chagoury-Linked DP World as Nigerians Question His Priorities
President Bola Tinubu’s administration has awarded two major Ogun State deep seaport contracts worth more than $7 billion to DP World MEA FZE,...