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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 colonial legacy came under renewed scrutiny as journalists, historians, and pan-African activists gathered at ...

France still has 600 troops in Ivory Coast, 350 in Senegal and 350 in Gabon, as well as around 1,500 in Djibouti. It has had 1,000 troops in Chad.

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 ...