France rejected criticism from new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it lagged in defence, saying it met NATO's target ...

France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, the Ivorian president said France ...

France has finally ended its 60-year military presence in Chad by closing ... On Friday the last of nearly 1,000 French soldiers left. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby's decided last ...

The handover marks the end of France's military presence in its former colony "according to the wishes of the high Chadian authorities" in the capital N'Djaména. President Déby, in power since ...

Achieving “autonomous security" was an "absolute priority" for Chad, President Mahamat Idriss Deby said on Friday, a day after France vacated its last military base. France ended its military ...

France has finally ended its 60-year military presence in Chad by closing its last military ... On Friday the last of nearly 1,000 French soldiers left. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby's decided ...

The fifth edition of the exercise in the Indo-Pacific is the pinnacle of a wider 150-day French deployment, centered around ...