Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.

France's military presence in Africa has been steadily declining recently as several nations seek to remove French forces - ...

"What is evident is that Benin is now at war--a war waged by French imperialism through proxy jihadist forces," argues Damien Zinsou Degbe of Benin's Council of Patriotic Youth, which has organized ...

Insurgents killed 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern city ...

Former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam has renounced his French citizenship to meet eligibility conditions for Ivory Coast's ...

Niger, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, has for over a decade battled an insurgency ... the ruling juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia’s mercenary units for security ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern ...

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

The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting a homeless man with an automatic rifle in downtown Memphis.

“He suggested us to join the army under a fixed-term contract to see whether we liked it.” In 1963, she married retired French air force colonel Alexis Santini, whom she first met in Indochin ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged young volunteers to "reinforce" army ranks in an address to French military personnel. During a speech at the Army Digital and Cyber Support Command in ...