Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

French forces have withdrawn from Chad after 65 years, although France maintains that military cooperation will continue.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

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

France has said it deplores the decision of 76-year-old former hostage Sophie Pétronin to go back to Mali months after she was released. The charity worker was held by militants in northern Mali ...

six African countries – Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Senegal, and Ivory Coast – had cut military ties with France. Mali: In August 2020, a group of soldiers from the Malian Armed Forces ...

Niger?s minister of interior and public security has called for increased vigilance to deal with the alleged threat France is ...

A government plain in the African nation of Mali to remove state support for Catholic schools could harm inter-religious ...

Wassim Nasr, FRANCE 24’s terrorist expert ... to locate Navarro and his kidnappers near the town of Indelimane in Mali’s eastern region of Ménaka, more than 322 kilometres south of the ...

Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony ...

France has handed over its final military post in Chad to local authorities, two months after the former French colony in central Africa terminated its defense cooperation deal with Paris. Chad has ...