Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country ... were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets, were important to the empire for ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

The AEK-973 is getting a full-auto conversion ... with multiplayer maps like Heirloom and Racket simulating battles striking at the heart of the criminal empire. Sev and Troy were trying to ...

Like many empire-minded global powers hellbent on expanding ... Natives of the French colonies eventually gained full citizenship. Over the course of generations, many immigrated to France.

In the process, you explored a beautiful, Orientalist world map of faded mosaic tiles and dusty gold fittings. In Airborne Empire, out in early access today ... players find themselves deep in an open ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali DAKAR ...

BAMAKO, Mali — A landslide engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them, the governor’s office of the Koulikoro region in the West African country said Thursday.

(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 ...

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. The attackers ...