New bill allows France's government to expedite the return of African heritage without parliamentary approval, but ...

FRANCE HAS finally ended its 65-year army presence in Senegal. The European country officially handed back Camp Geille, its ...

CAJ Africa, a leading pan-African news agency, successfully organized a roundtable in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together key ...

France Withdraws from Senegal; Hands Over Last Two Bases in West Africa | Firstpost Africa | N18G France has officially ended ...

The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country where it maintained a permanent troop presence, amid waning regional influence in recent years.

France has closed its permanent military bases in Chad and Ivory Coast since early 2025, but no base closure has been officially reported in the Central African Republic. France completed the ...

The military camp had been occupied by French forces since Senegal’s independence in 1960 and was still home to 350 troops.

The operations of the French company Eramet through its subsidiary GCO in Senegal are raising serious concerns, not only for ...

Earlier this year, France returned a "talking drum" seized in 1916 by French colonial forces from the Ebrie tribe to Ivory Coast. In 2019, then Prime Minister Edouard Philippe handed over a sword ...

France’s pullout from West Africa follows two precepts. By dropping Françafrique, President Macron pulls two popular flags ...

France has faced opposition from leaders of some of its former colonies in Africa over what they described as a demeaning and heavy-handed approach to the continent. The French mi ...

Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional backlash against what many see as the legacy of an oppressive colonial empire.V ...