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

Officers from the French and Chadian army salute as the French flag is lowered during a ceremony marking the departure of French soldiers from a military base in Abeche, Chad, on Saturday.

"But, for sure, there is quite a few French officials and military officers who are working hard to shed the image that France has in Africa as an arrogant former colonial power," Wilen said.

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960 ...

Ibrahim Traoré, the president of Burkina Faso, has banned the use of British and French colonial ... The colonial-era wigs, long seen as symbols of external control in African judicial systems ...

Ivory Coast announced that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong military presence, the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial power.

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.

France's reputation in its former African colonies has been tainted for a while. A recent speech by President Emmanuel Macron ...

Colonial administrators and governors, commanders, but also French writers and doctors cover 60% of this piece of the peninsula with their names, according to a study published in 2019.

The declaration came as Senegal marked 80 years after a colonial-era massacre that saw French troops kill tens of West African soldiers angry at their treatment after fighting for Paris in World ...

But why was it so important to Germany and why were the British and French so keen to destroy ... powered enough to link all of Germany’s African colonies with Berlin. This enabled it to send ...

France has now been kicked out of more than 70% of African countries where it had a troop presence since ending its colonial rule. The French remain only in Djibouti, with 1,500 soldiers ...