Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

French photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of ...

“The French side ... of an oppressive colonial empire. France has faced opposition from some African leaders over what they ...

In November, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced that French army bases were ... anniversary of mass killings of West African soldiers by colonial forces in 1944.

France said earlier this year it was working with Senegal to organize the withdrawal of French troops. The embassy said ...

"French neocolonialism is the main cause of underdevelopment in Benin and much of West Africa," insists Parfait Gnanmi ... Read:A new military strategy of French neo-colonialism in Africa: ...

Ivory Coast's announcement follows that of other leaders across West Africa, where the French ... a troop presence since ending its colonial rule. The French remain only in Djibouti, with 1,500 ...

The common CFA franc currency, used by former French colonies in West and Central Africa, has been a big point of controversy. The currency, created in colonial times, is pegged to the French-used ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Kryzstof Gorny, urban planning researcher with the University of Poland who has studied the phenomenon of Senegalese streets with French names, explains the background when Dakar became of the capital ...

“The French ... colonial empire. France has faced opposition from some African leaders over what they described as a demeaning and heavy-handed approach to the continent. It has suffered ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.