France said on Thursday it would keep 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast largely for training purposes, as it handed over control of a military base in the commercial capital amid a scaling back of ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

By that point, Traoré had expelled military forces sent by France — Burkina Faso’s former colonial ruler — a decade earlier to help counter the swelling Islamist militancy. He had also ...

France retains 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast for training as it hands over a military base, reducing its presence amid ...

Western media, particularly the French, have launched a massive disinformation campaign against West African countries such ...

The relationship between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is getting tighter. The junta-led allies will own common passport from January 29, the date of their departure from regional bloc ECOWAS.

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

In 2022, a France-based NGO, Promediation ... Ghana" and from "many" ethnic groups were joining the insurgency in Burkina Faso. "Some are fighting for jihad. Some are doing it for business ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country on Thursday as the majority of French forces departed from countries across ...