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Aminata Doumbia, president of the women's group, sits next to a pit on farmland that was leased with help from USAID but has not yet been cultivated because the funding has ceased in Kimbirila-Nord, Ivory Coast, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Ivory Coast is losing US aid as al-Qaida and other extremist groups are approaching

The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts in foreign aid have impacted programs in northern Ivory Coast to counter the spread of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.

Gold panners break stones in Kidal, Mali, on Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File)

Mali suspends artisanal gold mining permits for foreign companies after series of accidents

Maguette Diauf Fall, a teacher at Nouadhibou's Organization for the Support of Migrants and refugees, poses for a portrait in a classroom, Mauritania, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Moulay)

A school helps migrants in Mauritania. Is it enough to keep them from leaving for Europe?

The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, pose for a group photo during their extraordinary meeting in Accra, Ghana, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Eshun Nanaresh, File)

What’s ahead for a 50-year-old West African bloc after 3 junta-led countries left the group?

FILE- French journalist Olivier Dubois arrives at the VIP lounge at the airport in Niamey, Niger, on March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Judith Besnard, File)

A French journalist recounts 711 days of captivity as a hostage of Islamic extremists in Mali

Supporters of Alliance of Sahel States gather in Niger capital for conference

Delegates have been attending a conference in Niamey in support of the Alliance of Sahel States, comprised of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The alliance was formed after the three countries experienced military coups and aims to provide support while they’ve been cut off from much of the international community.

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Mali’s iconic mud brick mosque restored amid conflict and collapse of tourism

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Mali announces withdrawal from alliance of French-speaking countries

Separatists in Mali say an army airstrike on a market killed 18. The army says it targeted fighters

The collapse of a gold mine has killed 42 people and injured several others in Mali

25 civilians killed in an attack by gunmen in Mali

Landslide kills several artisanal gold miners in southern Mali

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah warms up before the start of the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Ipswich Town at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025.(AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

Morocco to start Africa Cup of Nations as host in a group with Mali, Zambia and Comoros

ADDING DATES AND LOCATION This photo taken Jan. 21, 2025, shows Spanish hostage Navarro Giane Gilbert posing with Tuareg militiamen in Tinzaouaten, Mali, after being released this week. Gilbert was reported kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. (Front de Liberation de Azawad via AP)

Mali rebel group frees Spanish national kidnapped in Algeria

Spain says a citizen has been kidnapped in northern Africa

Barrick Gold Corporation President and CEO Mark Bristow visits the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange after ringing the opening bell, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Mali seizes 3 tons of gold from Canadian company Barrick amid dispute over share of revenue

Ivorian special forces soldiers conduct an urban reconnaissance exercise under the supervision of French special forces during the annual US. Military led counterterrorism training known as Flintlock, near base camp Loumbila, Jacqueville, Ivory Coast, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui, File)

Ivory Coast asks French troops to leave, the latest African country to do so

Nearly 70 migrants died when their boat sank en route to Spain, a Malian minister says

Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, third from left, first row, poses for a group photo with other West African leaders, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

West Africa regional bloc approves exit timeline for 3 coup-hit member states

This undated photograph released in April 2022 by France's military shows Russian mercenaries boarding a helicopter in northern Mali. (French Army via AP, File)

Rights group accuses Russian mercenaries of abuses against civilians in Mali

Mali court frees 11 signatories to declaration calling for ruling military junta to stand down

Drone strikes by Mali’s military regime kill 8 Tuareg leaders in the country’s north

FILE - Barrick Gold Corporation President and CEO Mark Bristow visits the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange after ringing the opening bell, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Mali arrests four senior employees of Canadian mining company as it presses firms for more taxes

Mali cuts TV news station’s signal over broadcast criticizing Burkina Faso’s ruling junta

At least 6 mercenaries with Russia’s Wagner group killed in an extremist attack in Mali

Mali Minister of State Abdoulaye Maiga speaks during a a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Mali’s ruling military appoints new prime minister, a day after his predecessor was fired

FILE - Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 25, 2021. (Kena Betancur/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Mali junta leader fires prime minister days after he criticizes the military regime

Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud attends his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024. (Eva Plevier/ ANP via AP, Pool)

ICC sentences al-Qaida-linked former police chief to 10 years for war crimes in Mali

Australian mine company to pay Mali junta $160 million after its CEO and 2 employees were detained

People plant trees in the Zamblara forest in Mali's Sikasso region Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, as part of a campaign with Malian NGO Energia, a partner of the Great Green Wall initiative. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

Activists plant trees in Mali but residents strip them for firewood. They say there’s no choice

FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an Independence Day military parade in Bamako, Mali, on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Mali arrests top politician for criticizing Burkina Faso’s ruling junta

Mali detains top executive and 2 others from an Australian gold mining company over dispute

FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

The head of Mali’s military junta appoints himself to the highest rank in the army

Patients at Bamako's Point G psychiatric ward act out scenes at the psychiatric ward of the Point G hospital in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

Mali’s traditional theater gives psychiatric patients the stage

Burkina Faso’s junta suspends Voice of America broadcasts over coverage of militant violence

Military juntas in 3 West African nations investigate a French journalist over jihadi analysis

FILE-A police officer and a soldier from Benin stop a motorcyclist at a checkpoint outside Porga, Benin, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/ Marco Simoncelli, file)

Attacks by Islamic extremists are rampant in Africa’s Sahel. Here’s what we know about them