Days after the democratically elected president of Niger was deposed in a military coup, thousands of supporters of the takeover thronged the French embassy in the nation’s capital to deliver an ...

Mr. Shatz is the U.S. editor of The London Review of Books and the author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.” The shock of the new, in political life, often sends us back ...

France still has some level of control over its former colonies, here's how. France and Britain were colonial overlords of Africa; while Britain colonised 22 African countries, France colonised 20.

In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Colonel Assimi ...

“Cette femme qui voit sans être vue frustre le colonisateur. Il n’y a pas réciprocité.” These words, written in 1959 by Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon, described the deep frustration of the ...

Correction: This segment stated that six West African nations have gone through coups in the last three years, and four of them are former French colonies. In fact, one of the nations, Sudan, is not ...

This year marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944. Two months later in 1944, a less-known amphibious landing along France's Mediterranean coast also helped liberate the ...

DAKAR, Senegal — It's been a tumultuous month for France and its relationship with former colonies in Africa, as its influence on the continent faces the biggest challenge in decades. As Paris was ...

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 ...

Four small coral islands, an atoll and a reef in the Indian Ocean are at the centre of geopolitical tensions between France and Madagascar. Although they cover just 16 square miles of land and have no ...