The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European ...

France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which ...

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

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

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

(Nairobi) – Governments in Central Africa suppressed civil and political rights, especially in the context of elections, with impunity in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report ...

President Idriss Deby is turning to new alliesImage: Israel Matene/REUTERS The attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena on 8 January ... Senegal, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast have asked ...

May 23, 2024: Mahamat Idriss Deby at his inauguration ceremony in N’djamenaImage: Israel Matene/REUTERS The attack on the presidential palace in N’Djamena on 8 January was not planned.

A Catholic charity has made it possible for a diocese in Burkina Faso to provide six months' basic food supply to impoverished IDPs (internally displaced persons). Bishop Joseph Sama of Nouna has ...

Some West African countries, such as Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, have turned for help to Russia, which publicly emphasizes its lack of colonial history. China takes a similar tack, positioning i ...

The last stage of the French departure is the withdrawal from the Sergeant Adji Kossei base in the national capital of N'djamena ... withdrew units from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.