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

French troops in Mali have shot dead a civilian. There are conflicting reports what the events that led to the shooting. Mali is under control as a result of a coup. France's army command in Mali has ...

Civic spaces are shrinking under Goita’s rule, democracy activists say, as the military suspends ‘political activity’.

Violence and ethnic conflicts have sent hundreds of thousands of people in Mali to refugee camps such as Faladié in the ...

The junta has suspended French television channel TV5 Monde for a reportage on the May 3 demonstration which the authorities ...

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 ...

fought off an attack by "an armed terrorist group" said a statement from the army, using a term generally used to refer to jihadists. Four soldiers were killed and another 14 wounded, while six of the ...

Following military coups in all three nations in recent years, the ruling juntas have expelled French forces and ... to curb violence in Mali, while the army has been accused of targeting civilians.

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has announced that all foreign military forces must leave the country by July Read ...