Chad's President Field Marshal Mahamat Idriss Deby says this week’s departure of the last French troops from the central ...

French forces have withdrawn from Chad after 65 years, although France maintains that military cooperation will continue.

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

Ivory Coast’s expulsion of French troops follows similar moves across the region, leaving a power vacuum that must be handled ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks about African countries’ "ingratitude" for France’s role in ...

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

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel ...

Carol Valade/AFP/Getty Images Ivory Coast and Chad are the latest in a string of former French colonies in West and Central ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force ...