President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which ...

French forces have withdrawn from Chad after 65 years, although France maintains that military cooperation will continue .

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

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Christopher Musa, on Wednesday charged Niger Republic, Burkina Faso, and Mali to ...

In 2013, it launched Operation Serval in Mali, replaced in 2014 by Operation Barkhane in partnership with the G5 Sahel countries, namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, an alliance ...

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

In 2013, it launched Operation Serval in Mali, replaced in 2014 by Operation Barkhane in partnership with the G5 Sahel countries, namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, an alliance ...

Authorities in five countries—including the military juntas of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea—did not feel obliged to even hold elections despite previously committing to do so. In another six ...

Burkina Faso has joined Chad and Senegal in vociferously criticising French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments last week on Africa. Burkina Faso’s Junta Chief, Ibrahim Traore, said that Macron had ...

At the end of November, Chad announced that it will end its defense ... Several former French colonies, including Niger, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast have asked France to pull ...