China's first ever defence attache to Niger, Colonel-Major Chen Xuming, was welcomed earlier this month at a reception held ...
Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...
Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...
France said on Thursday it would keep 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast largely for training purposes, as it handed over control of a military base in the commercial capital amid a scaling back of ...
By that point, Traoré had expelled military forces sent by France — Burkina Faso’s former colonial ruler — a decade earlier to help counter the swelling Islamist militancy. He had also ...
Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...
Western media, particularly the French, have launched a massive disinformation campaign against West African countries such ...
February 20, 2025 France officially transferred control of its only military base in Cote d'Ivoire, the camp of the 43rd ...
In 2022, a France-based NGO, Promediation ... Ghana" and from "many" ethnic groups were joining the insurgency in Burkina Faso. "Some are fighting for jihad. Some are doing it for business ...
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have now formed their ... jihadist uprisings in their countries and of being too close to France, the former colonial power in the region. The three have largely ...
France retains 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast for training as it hands over a military base, reducing its presence amid ...