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

Suspected terrorists affiliated with Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, JNIM, have launched a coordinated and deadly assault ...

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

The Central African nation announced the end of bilateral military pact with Paris last November - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Christopher Musa, on Wednesday charged Niger Republic, Burkina Faso, and Mali to ...

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 ...

French forces have withdrawn from Chad after 65 years, although France maintains that military cooperation will continue.

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.

STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...

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

Chad has been a key counterterrorism force ... French forces have been ousted in recent years from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso following years of fighting Islamic extremists alongside regional ...