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

It stationed troops in N'djamena claiming it was helping Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to fight militant groups and terrorists ...

Once a key link in France's military presence in Africa, Chad was its last foothold in the wider Sahel region after the ...

"What is evident is that Benin is now at war--a war waged by French imperialism through proxy jihadist forces," argues Damien Zinsou Degbe of Benin's Council of Patriotic Youth, which has organized ...

It's a further setback for Paris in its former French-speaking African colony, after having seen its troops ousted by military putschists in Mali, in 2022, then in Burkina Faso and Niger ...

France is preparing to hand Côte d'Ivoire back its only military base in the country in a ceremony on 20 February, further ...

STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...