Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

While the authorities exploiting impunity may not bear much reputational, legal, or financial cost, the burden on citizens is heavy. Instability wrought by impunity frequently spills across borders, ...

The defence chiefs of ECOWAS countries, except for Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, and Niger, in Accra on August 17, 2024.

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, pose for a group photo during their ...

In 2013, it launched Operation Serval in Mali, replaced in 2014 by Operation Barkhane in partnership with the G5 Sahel countries, namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, an alliance ...

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

The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of ...

On Thursday January 30, Chad officially took control of France’s final military base in the country, marking the culmination ...

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 ...