Senegal's chief of the general staff, General Mbaye Cisse, right, and French General Pascal Ianni, who commands France's ...

Political instability in former French colonies in Africa is fast gaining prominence with the latest military takeover happening in Gabon. Gabonese President Ali Bongo was all but set to extend his 14 ...

The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country where it maintained a ...

This resentment has spilled over into a burgeoning anti-French sentiment that is rising across the former French colonies in West and Central Africa, said Oluwole Ojewale, an analyst with the ...

France will on Thursday formally hand back its last military bases in Senegal, leaving the French army with no permanent camps in west and central Africa. Only the tiny Horn of Africa nation of ...

“Of all the former colonial powers in Africa,” Noudjenoume told us, “it is France that has intervened militarily at least sixty times to overthrow governments, such as [that of] Modibo ...

The French administrator, in contrast, need not learn an African language. Indeed, the prospects of his career discourage his doing so, because he is likely to be sent to quite different parts of West ...

The ground has been primed for military takeovers. Eight of the nine successful coups in Africa since 2020 have been in former French colonies — the only exception is Sudan, a former British colony.

“The past 10-15 years, every French president comes to power with the idea of sort of reforming the relationship with Africa — moving beyond the old legacy of post-colonial relations,” said ...

PARIS/LIBREVILLE, Feb 27 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Mass protest against the French presence is now evident across the former French colonies in Africa. These civilian protests have not been able to result in straight-forward civilian transitions ...