French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso were to officially quit the West African bloc Ecowas Wednesday, severing ties after years of ...

This is the conclusion of a recent paper we published in which we reviewed bilingual programs in six francophone west African countries: Niger, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and ...

For example, in the West African region, there are the Anglophone, Arabophone, Francophone, and Lusophone countries. When discussing Francophone Africa, some of them also have other affinities.

“And so in the last couple of years, we have really ramped up.” At the same time, the country has emerged as a leading commercial hub in francophone West Africa, celebrated for its ease of doing ...

France has been on the back foot in its former colonial territory of the Sahel region of francophone West Africa after ... presence was needed in the African countries. “As we are very polite ...

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

“This generally fits into the logic of the processes taking place in the Francophone countries of West Africa, whose populations are increasingly critical of the large-scale presence of foreign ...

Over the past decade, France has been forced out of over 70 percent of the African nations where it once maintained a ...