Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gabon, Djibouti, Chad... The agenda is still unclear for the remaining French forces on the continent ...

NIGER and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from the G5 military bloc of west African states today. The two countries ...

With a wave of coups in former French colonies in Africa, France is finding it can no longer take its military role on the continent for granted. There have been growing protests against France's ...

FILE - A French Army vehicle moves through Niamey, Niger, on Oct. 10, 2023, to a destination that could be Chad, according to security sources. Opposition and civil society groups in Chad are asking ...

Niger has started generating electricity from a solar plant near the capital Niamey to make up for power shortages caused by ...

Niger's military leaders said on Monday, December 4, that they were ending two European Union security and defense missions ...

The Sahel normally refers to a region, not as a region of Africa as defined in Article 1(d) and 1(e) of the 1991 Abuja Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, but simply as a biogeographic ...

Niger’s junta has scrapped two key military agreements that the West African nation signed with the European Union to help ...

A Russian delegation led by the Deputy Minister of Defense arrived in Niamey to discuss with the military authorities, who ...

Chad’s leader, Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby, is currently overseeing a complex political transition that is supposed to culminate ...

Burkina Faso terminated its military agreements with France after a months-long standoff. Since then, the military leaders in the country have sought other partners to counter the jihadist threat. A ...

Clashes that shook Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Sunday left 13 dead in the ranks of the army loyal to the government, ...