France's government on Wednesday discussed a bill designed to speed up the return of artworks looted during the colonial era ...

Up to now, France has had to adopt a specific law each time it consents to a restitution, a painstaking process which takes ...

France’s withdrawal signals the decline of its traditional cultural and political dominance in Francophone Africa. The ...

With the political leaders of francophone Africa increasingly turning their backs on their former colonial rulers, French ...

France’s pullout from West Africa follows two precepts. By dropping Françafrique, President Macron pulls two popular flags ...

Then there is Rwanda itself. While Rwanda was originally a Belgian colonial possession, France treated it as its own following the country’s 1962 independence. French policy, however, was twisted.

France left its colonies decades ago, but old habits and presumptions about French power and dominance across a swath of Africa have endured, symbolized by a significant military presence and the ...

France returned Camp Geille, its largest base in Senegal, and its airfield at Dakar’s airport in a ceremony on Thursday ...

(CN) — A military coup on Wednesday in the oil-rich West African nation of Gabon became the latest disaster for France's long-standing goal to keep a major presence in its former African colonies. The ...

The progress made by the banana-growers of French West Africa has caused panic among French fruitgrowers at home; coconut-palm and ground-nut oils have seriously threatened French olive oil; rum ...

PARIS/LIBREVILLE, Feb 27 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France's military bases in Africa will gradually be co-run with their host nations, after Paris suffered a series ...