Although the Royal Charter of the Colony of Virginia in 1609 granted the authority to mint coins, the power was never used until 1773 when the Virginia Assembly recognized the need for actual coinage ...

France hands over its last West African base to Senegal, ending decades of permanent troop presence amid rising regional calls for sovereignty.

The French military has completed its withdrawal from Senegal, its last West African country with a permanent troop presence, ...

Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional ...

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

France will on Thursday formally hand back its last military bases in Senegal, leaving the French army with no permanent ...

France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent camps in ...

Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea accused France of neo-colonial behaviour on Tuesday, urging United Nations judges to block the sale of a mansion on one of Paris poshest avenues in the latest instalment ...

Equatorial Guinea has accused France of "neo-colonial" behavior in a legal battle over a luxury mansion in Paris ...

Moscow has sought to expand its influence in Africa in recent years, including in former French colonies, through campaigns using grassroots activists and social media.

Macron's visit marked the first by a French leader to the former colony off the east coast of Africa since Jacques Chirac's in 2005.

Other democratic nations in west Africa seem to be reassessing their ties with western powers, too. The Ivory Coast, for example, has called for the end of its colonial-era military pact with France.