For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier ...

Welcome to 2025, a year when we're going to need musical diversion and engagement more than ever! Here are eight items to start off Afropop's video list for the year. You could argue that it's a tad ...

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 ...

Rajhi, 43, had previously recorded a best finish of third in 2022. Saudi Arabia have hosted the Dakar Rally since 2020, when it moved from South America. There was also a first win in the world's ...

It was a historic day for Saudi Arabia motor racing. Saudi Arabian racer Yazeed Al-Rajhi won the 2025 Dakar Rally on Friday, capping off the two-week event in style. Al-Rajhi became the first ...

Dakar is on the verge of a significant transformation with an ambitious project to modernize its public transport system. Estimated at 267.8 billion FCFA, the “Restructuration du Réseau de ...

Henk Lategan and Brett Cummings is set finish the 2025 Dakar Rally in second place. Picture: Toyota Despite his best efforts in the dunes of Saudi Arabia’s notorious Empty Quarter on Thursday ...

The Dakar Rally is unlike any other race on the face of the Earth. And Segway is one of the last bike makers you’d expect to find in it. There are plenty of reasons for that, but perhaps the ...

SHUBAYTAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Henk Lategan and Yazeed Al-Rajhi will duel in the Saudi sand for their first Dakar Rally title after swapping the lead for a second straight day Wednesday.

Gold is also Mali's top foreign currency earner, accounting for more than 80% of total exports in 2023. Sign up here. Reporting by Giulia Paravicini in Nairobi and Portia Crowe in Dakar ...

DAKAR - Canadian miner Barrick Gold said it will have to suspend mining operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks from the company's Loulo-Gounkoto complex and flew them out by ...

HARADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Local driver Yazeed Al Rajhi took advantage of a miserable stage by South Africa's Henk Lategan to grab the Dakar Rally lead in the Saudi Arabia desert on Tuesday.