As countries continue to pivot from France, Paris too has begun implementing a new Africa strategy launched in late 2024: ...

A vast central African metropolis is thought to be the most francophone city globally, with more people speaking French there than Paris. Kinshasa, the capital and largest city of the Democratic ...

These 19 priority countries are located in Africa, with the exception of Haiti. They receive the majority of soft loans, amounting to half of France’s grants and two thirds of the grants operated by ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

organized a workshop with parliamentarians from French-speaking African countries on their contributions to establishing effective defense and security policies in Africa. Co-funded by the Open ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, the Ivorian president said France would ...

By the end of December 2020, the AFD had already dedicated€1.119 billion, 80% of which was for Africa, to help developing countries. Furthermore, France was behind the international ... Between 2011 ...

France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the run up is proceeding seamlessly without any rancour. The 230-hectare ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Jan 6 to French ambassadors that African countries had "forgotten to say thank you" to France for its decadelong military efforts in fighting ...

The winner, who must get support either by consensus or at least two-thirds of the 55 African heads of state, will succeed former Chad prime minister Moussa Faki.

Here is an analysis in infographics. African leaders have “forgotten to thank France” for its military intervention in the Sahel, Emmanuel Macron said in his speech earlier this month to French ...