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

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

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 ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

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

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

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Chad have joined three West African countries — Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso — asking for French troop’s withdrawal, marking a major blow to France’s waning ...

Analysis - With terrorists' attacks still on the rise, across and around the Sahel, the continuous Sudan violent armed conflict must be more than worrying. Indeed, it affects all its neighbors.

Victor-Marie Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and essayist, died more than two centuries ago, but some of his immortal thoughts still resonate today. In 1885, he postulated, and I quote: “There is one ...