Experts say they are following the example of Sahel countries as local leaders and populations want more sovereignty over ...

The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling ...

Several African nations have expelled French troops, signaling a significant decline in the former colonial power’s influence ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will ... A wave of African countries is pushing the former coloniser back, but Senegal is the only one without military leaders. The Economic Community ...

Senegal, and Ivory Coast – had cut military ties with France. Mali: In August 2020, a group of soldiers from the Malian Armed Forces mutinied and seized power from the civilian government in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese and Chadian leaders said that the ousting of French troops from their territories was their ...

Analysis - Left parties of West Africa warn that announcements by France-backed regimes in its former African colonies about the withdrawal of its troops is an attempt to deceive the anti-imperialist ...

Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops ... Burkina Faso and Niger — have recently asked the French to leave. Most recently, Senegal and Chad did the same. Chad is considered ...

Kessie had given hosts Ivory Coast hope when he coolly dispatched an 86th-minute spot-kick past Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy to send the tie into extra-time. The 27-year-old delivered once ...

Rinaldo Depagne, West Africa project director for the International Crisis Group, doubts the French military departure will improve security in Senegal and Ivory Coast, which border the Sahel ...