The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European ...

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

For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

Burkina Faso has joined Chad and Senegal in vociferously criticising French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments last week on Africa. Burkina Faso’s Junta Chief, Ibrahim Traore, said that Macron had ...

Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of Burkina Faso, has banned judges from donning wigs that are symbolic of colonial French and British outfits. Colonial-era wigs have long been associated with foreign ...

A Catholic charity has made it possible for a diocese in Burkina Faso to provide six months' basic food supply to impoverished IDPs (internally displaced persons). Bishop Joseph Sama of Nouna has ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is “insulting all Africans," Burkina Faso President Capt. Ibrahim Traore has said, urging African nations to end military pacts with Paris. "(Macron) has ...