In pursuit of exclusionary policies, Le Pen risks not just France’s economic prosperity but the very essence of its national ...

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

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

France’s influence in Africa is weakening, but it hasn’t disappeared. While political ties are fading, its economic grip ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

"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 ...

This week's announcement by Niger's Foreign Affairs Ministry to effectively ban the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) came unexpectedly, apparently without any prior warning. ICRC Niger ...

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled.

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

France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of ...

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 ... recent years from Niger, Mali ...