Animated map showing a part of the route of Tour de France 2025 stage 21, which takes place in Paris on July 27, with a video filmed on a bike ride showing the climb to the Sacre-Coeur Basilica on the ...

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 of setbacks in its former sphere of ...

France to Pull Troops Out of Burkina Faso, as Its Unpopularity in Africa Grows The West African country had demanded that French troops leave. France confirmed they would be out in a month.

Elsewhere in Africa the drive toward freedom moved on. Last week, 18 months after France granted them autonomy, two French Community members extracted from France formal agreements granting them ...

It is well known that in order to secure French influence on the upper part of the river, a fort was constructed in 1855 at Medina, a point situated about 15 hours' navigation from Bakel, and ...

Unlike other former colonial powers, France kept permanent military bases in Africa long after the continent’s countries won their independence.

As Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron toured a NATO military base in north-west London on ...

What advantages could France lose by withdrawing its troops from African countries? France's military presence in French-speaking Africa has evolved in strategic importance over the past 65 years.

Earlier this year, he promised also to downsize France’s military presence elsewhere in Africa, including closing bases and possibly “co-managing” others with African hosts.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...

Coup leaders have ignored the deadline and closed Niger's airspace as the former French colony awaits the next move from Ecowas amid fears that the crisis could spark a war in Africa. A graphic ...

Sir: The recent expulsions of French troops from West African countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Ivory Coast, mark a significant shift in the regional dynamics. This development presents ...