While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would ...

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

France waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said ...

The retreat, which comes amid increasing budget pressure and political upheaval in Paris, is another sign that France’s ...

France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies, and fresh tensions ignited this week with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron.

On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating ...

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