New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

The Senegalese government is seeking to redefine its long-standing relationship with its former colonial rulers, the French, ...

The departure from all five military bases in Senegal will be completed by September according to local news agency Senego ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

France is preparing to hand Côte d'Ivoire back its only military base in the country in a ceremony on 20 February, further ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would ...

French President Emmanuel Macron celebrates with French soldiers during a Christmas dinner at Port-Bouet military camp near Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Dec. 21, 2019, during a visit to West Africa.

Chad, Senegal and now Ivory Coast have followed ... military presence in Africa is a symbol of that collapse.” French-African relations haven’t improved in recent days. On Monday, Macron ...

Promising to free Senegal from the yoke of French neocolonialism ... to lead the most important French neocolony in West Africa,” addedEkissi. Taking advantage of the discontent that had ...

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