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

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

Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa's main political and trade group ECOWAS on ...

The ECOWAS bloc has offered some concessions to Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger following their exit from the union ・ECOWAS ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

Vista Group, which bought Societe Generale SA and BNP Paribas SA’s African units, is expanding to France as the Burkina ...

The relationship between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is getting tighter. The junta-led allies will own common passport from January 29, the date of their departure from regional bloc ECOWAS.

France exists today thanks to our ancestors ... voicing regret that many of his peers "had not yet understood this." Burkina Faso has been under army rule since January 2022.

Burkina Faso has now joined countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in taking steps to ban the usage of wigs.

Sangaré studied in Russia for nine years starting in 1974. He said that he faced far less racism there than in France, Burkina Faso’s former colonial ruler, and that he thought Russians ...

France, whose colonial rule in West Africa ... After expelling the French troops, military leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have moved closer to Russia. A wave of African countries is ...

Those nations include coup-hit Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and Chad, which is considered France’s most stable and loyal partner in Africa. The downscaling of military ties comes as France ...