Niger Drops French As Official Language After Mali, Burkina Faso | Firstpost Africa | N18G Niger has officially designated ...

SAFO, Mali — Most of the students had never seen their native language in its written form until recently. Now, they were eagerly sounding out the words appearing on the ThinkPad laptops before ...

Mali, a country in West Africa, has removed French from being the official language of communication to being a working language following the implementation of its new constitution. The law was ...

Mali has withdrawn from a global alliance of French-speaking countries, days after two of its neighbors took the same step.

While Hausa is the predominant language spoken in Niger, French has held official status since the nation gained independence ...

Burkina Faso and Mali were also suspended following their ... in accordance with its main mission of promoting the French language and cultural and linguistic diversity. The theme for this year ...

[AFP] Mali's ruling junta has suspended French-language channel TV5 Monde for three months for what it called a lack of "balance" in a news item, the media regulator said in a statement received ...

Niger's junta has adopted Hausa as the national language in the place of French in a further break from Paris, its former colonial master.

Following the military coups, Burkina Faso and Mali dropped French as the official language and banned many French-speaking media outlets. Last year, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso announced their ...