France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the ...

France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in West Africa, and both sides say the ...

Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.

Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson traveled to the port city of Dakhla, on the West African coast, to launch his budget airline’s ...

Now there is no public support for sending any more troops to Africa even if they are requested by beleaguered African governments. Those African political crises have been a regular feature of ...

French military strategy in Africa is undergoing a significant shift as it faces increasing resistance from former colonies.

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled.

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense ...