The Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in recent years have been ... violence and have made kidnappings a ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

A suspected jihadist attack on a convoy escorted by the army and Russia's Wagner mercenary group has killed 10 people in ...

The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European ...

France sent its forces to Mali in 2013 to repel an offensive by al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, and later deployed troops to other countries in West Africa’s Sahel region.

France has said it deplores the decision of 76-year-old former hostage Sophie Pétronin to go back to Mali months after she was released. The charity worker was held by militants in northern Mali ...

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

N’DJAMENA, Chad — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the ...

Chad, Senegal and now Ivory Coast have followed Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in asking France to withdraw its troops from their soil. The reasons vary — from growing anti-French sentiment to ...

Wassim Nasr, FRANCE 24’s terrorist expert ... to locate Navarro and his kidnappers near the town of Indelimane in Mali’s eastern region of Ménaka, more than 322 kilometres south of the ...

Once home to pre-colonial empires, Mali is a large, arid, landlocked country in western Africa. For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a center for commerce, culture and learning. But after ...