President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which ...

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

Elias Jabbe attended and photographed the 2025 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show – referred to by organizer Consumer Technology Association as “The Most Powerful Tech Event in the World” – ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — 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 cooperation ...

We provide services to Canadians visiting and living in Mali. The Embassy of Canada in Bamako is following the situation and providing consular service for Canadians in Niger. Canadians in need of ...

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

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

Ivory Coast’s expulsion of French troops follows similar moves across the region, leaving a power vacuum that must be handled ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP ... the capacity nor the legitimacy to ensure Africa’s security and sovereignty." French troops have already left Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, which are ruled by military ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will ...

Former French colonies in Africa, like Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Senegal and the Ivory Coast have all asked French soldiers stationd on their soil to leave in recent years. Macron has called ...