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

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

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

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 ...

Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic ...

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 ...

The United States and France and some other Western countries stand accused of disrupting peace and security in the ...