Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks about African countries’ "ingratitude" for France’s role in ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

Two months after Chad severed its defence agreement with Paris, the French army has handed over its last military base in the country. It comes after Paris handed over its two other bases in the ...

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

Thousands of people rallied Tuesday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the ...

Analysis - With terrorists' attacks still on the rise, across and around the Sahel, the continuous Sudan violent armed conflict must be more than worrying. Indeed, it affects all its neighbors.