NIGER and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from the G5 military bloc of west African states today. The two countries ...
Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gabon, Djibouti, Chad... The agenda is still unclear for the remaining French forces on the continent ...
FILE - A French Army vehicle moves through Niamey, Niger, on Oct. 10, 2023, to a destination that could be Chad, according to ...
Being in Africa militarily "plays a key role in justifying France's permanent seat on the UN Security Council - France is an ...
Instead, they will join Mali in a security alliance.Burkina Faso and Niger were withdrawing from a military alliance fighting ...
Niger has started generating electricity from a solar plant near the capital Niamey to make up for power shortages caused by ...
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 ...
What we have had is only so-called independence from France.” Although the July coup that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum ...
This is the second of a series of articles that will offer a brief summary and analysis of the coup d’états in Burkina Faso ...
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 ...
