France has restructured its military presence in recent months, closing most of its historic bases in West Africa. However, the arrival of private military companies employing French personnel is ...

Several soldiers have been killed in an attack targeting a military post in western Niger, a local source told AFP Tuesday, in an offensive claimed ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 34 years old, became the provisional head of Burkina Faso’s government after a military coup in ...

Murtala Muhammed, warned from the hallowed rostrum of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), in January 1976, that “ Africa has come of age and it is no longer under the ...