22 hours ago · The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of both countries announced Thursday. ... Burkina Faso and Niger in the ...

2 days ago · Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is a huge ...

1 day ago · Mali and Burkina Faso criticised Ecowas' "inhuman" sanctions and vowed to defend Niger if the bloc intervened militarily. After being suspended by Ecowas, the three states hit back by giving ...

Beginning in 2022, France began to withdraw military troops from several West African nations following decades of military presence and interventions, with Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Senegal, and Ivory Coast all terminating their defense agreements. The withdrawal coincided with increasing opposition towards French military intervention towards Islamist insurgency in …

Jan 23, 2025 · Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Chad have joined three West African countries — Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso — asking for French troop’s withdrawal, marking a major blow to France’s waning ...

Dec 17, 2024 · For over six decades, Chad was a crucial ally to French and US forces in their counter-insurgency operations in the Sahel. But both lost influence because of repeated mistakes. The Sahel region is now regarded as the “epicentre of global terrorism”.

Dec 11, 2024 · In addition, Chad could strengthen military cooperation with Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, members of the Alliance of Sahel States, to boost counter-terrorism efforts in the region.

Dec 6, 2023 · In September, two months after a coup in Niger, the country signed a mutual defence pact with Burkina Faso and Mali to assist one another – including militarily – against possible threats of armed...

Oct 23, 2024 · Operation Serval, later transformed into Operation Barkhane, became a three-thousand-strong force based in N’Djamena, Chad, focused on rooting out violent extremists in Burkina Faso, Mali, and ...

Apr 18, 2024 · Chad hosts France’s largest base on the continent and has received French troops that withdrew from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger after each country’s military authorities kicked them out. [36]