A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Suspected terrorists affiliated with Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, have launched a coordinated and deadly assault ...

Chad's President Field Marshal Mahamat Idriss Deby says this week’s departure of the last French troops from the central ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

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

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

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

The Central African nation announced the end of bilateral military pact with Paris last November - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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

STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...

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

Two months after Chad severed its defence agreement with Paris, the French army has handed over its last military base in the ...