France will formally hand over its last military bases in Senegal on Thursday, ending a 65-year presence in the country. The ...

France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent camps in ...

Senegal's chief of the general staff, General Mbaye Cisse, right, and French General Pascal Ianni, who commands France's ...

After storming to victory in 2024 elections promising radical change, Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye demanded ...

A map of US military bases—forward operating sites, cooperative security locations, and contingency locations—across the African continent in 2014, from declassified AFRICOM planning documents ...

Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: China is breaking ground on what may be its first major overseas military base. The location is Djibouti, on the coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Red Sea, looking across ...

Opinion - The military presence of the United States in Africa is strategic and enduring. It ensures a fragmented continent, easily pliable to the West's interests and a convenient site for the ...

Why does France have military bases in Africa? Published. 6 November 2023. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. ... it works to oversee training across all 15 members of the West African ...

Africa is likely to become one of the biggest stories of 2016, and not because of some horrific new disease or harrowing new war. Instead, an unprecedented new dynamic is about to shape the ...

The U.S. has two military bases in Niger, ... Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has reported on major stories across Africa, the Middle East and Europe.