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 ...

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 ...

NIAMEY, Niger – Months after a military coup ousted Niger’s elected president, seen by many here as too close to France, Nigeriens are still celebrating the break with their former colonial power.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

France must step up its staff presence and participation in innovation programmes inside NATO for Paris to benefit from its membership and financial contribution to the military alliance, a report ...

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 ...