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

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

Today, we will see how two of their squadrons also carried out a daring naval raid against French and English colonies in America ... he was sent to Africa to successfully expel the British expedition ...

Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to the The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...

For many in France, the war in Cameroon went unnoticed because it mainly involved troops from colonies in Africa and was overshadowed by the French fight in Algeria's 1954-1962 war of independence.

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial ... The claim also circulated in French-speaking countries (here and here). Africanews, a pan-African news ...

Françafrique’ is a term that describes the historical relationship between France and its former colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. … A portmanteau linking ‘France’ and the French word for ...

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.

The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of ...

African governments ... the notion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel, an area that sits just below the Sahara Desert, as Paris’ influence on its former colonies wanes.