Read more France to reduce troops in West and Central Africa to 600, say sources “For our partners, what matters tomorrow is not the number of soldiers. There will be the personnel needed to ...

Unlike other former colonial powers, France kept permanent military bases in Africa long after the continent’s countries won their independence. At times it acted as a regional gendarme ...

Ivory Coast is the latest country in West Africa to ask French troops to leave for good. It follows similar decisions by Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and Chad. We analyse France's shrinking ...

France plans to reduce military presence in West Africa Move irked Chad, which ended defence pact on Thursday French drawdown comes as Russia and others gain ground NAIROBI/GENEVA, Nov 29 (Reuters ...

Third, West Africa’s quest to move beyond France. Recently, many West African countries have shown interest in diversifying their relations from traditional colonial to new partners.

Apart from being France’s leading trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria is now in pole position to exploit the vacuum created by the exit of the Francophone West African countries ...

France has restructured its military presence in recent months, closing most of its historic bases in West Africa. However, the arrival of private military companies employing French personnel is ...

Between 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the Battle of France in 1940 were killed on Dec. 1, 1944 by French soldiers after what the French described as a mutiny ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon on Friday set the next presidential election for Oct. 12, according to a statement from the ...

Prosecutors accused Koffi Taregue of receiving wire transfers from the Ivory Coast to purchase firearms at Cleveland-area gun ...

Ivory Coast is the latest country in West Africa to ask French troops to leave for good. It follows similar decisions by Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and Chad. We analyse France's shrinking ...