“Mohammed Ali Ag Attaher, a rich and powerful man, engaged me as a servant,” a half-naked African told the French police in Bamako. “At the same time he hired another man and his wife and child. That ...

Two months ago grizzled blackamoor Prince Batoula, 44-year-old scion of a once potent Senegalese dynasty, came to the U. S. His father, Sheik Mamadou. is the “ruling notable” of nearly 2,000,000 ...

With a couple of exceptions, all the African countries that have witnessed a coup in recent years have one thing in common: ...

Sir: The recent expulsions of French troops from West African countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Ivory Coast, mark a significant shift in the regional dynamics. This development presents an ...

France has faced increasing calls to withdraw its military presence from several African countries in recent years, particularly in West and Central Africa, where it has maintained a strong presence ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has received a financial boost of €18 million from the French Development Agency (AFD) to support the implementation of two key regional projects ...

The troops are expected to leave Ivory Coast this month as France, a former colonial power in West Africa, fast loses influence there. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Ivory Coast has ...

DAKAR, Senegal — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to the ...

The West’s relations with countries in the Sahel seemed to have hit rock bottom in May when Niger ordered America to withdraw its forces by September—having already booted out a French ...