With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

A false statement attributed to the French President has been circulating on social media. View on euronews ...

Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a ...

France has restructured its military presence in recent months, closing most of its historic bases in West Africa. However, ...

Yet the American public knows little factually either about Dakar itself or about French West Africa, the area of which it is the capital. French West Africa is a region of vast extent and magnificent ...

“In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa,” said La Graviére, “I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African ...

S. His father, Sheik Mamadou. is the “ruling notable” of nearly 2,000,000 Senegalese of French West Africa, although the French Governor General’s word in that section of the world is ...

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

Eight pallbearers – some wearing tracksuits emblazoned with the FIFA logo – carried a coffin on their shoulders. Alongside them, referee whistles echoed the tune of a song being sung by the ...

Conditions are propitious in West Africa for a comparative study of direct and indirect rule. British and French colonies alternate with one another along the coast, yet the environment differs very ...

It was the late 19th century and European nations were beginning to look at the African continent as a more permanent resource base for their newly growing industrial sectors. More than the ...