It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

Rwanda-backed rebels say they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

The M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold in eastern Congo in one of Africa’s longest wars, which ...

Chad, Senegal and now Ivory Coast have followed Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in asking France to withdraw its troops from their soil. The reasons vary — from growing anti-French sentiment to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech to French ambassadors posted around the world, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris - Chad and Senegal have sharply criticized ...

Sonko strongly dismissed Macron's claims about the position of France in Senegal too. "I must emphasise that, in the case of Senegal, this assertion is entirely incorrect," he wrote on social media.

Chad and Senegal have criticised French President Emmanuel Macron after he said some African countries were ungrateful to France after it helped them combat jihadist insurgency in the Sahel. On Monday ...

On the same day, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced all foreign military bases in Senegal would close by 2025, setting a definitive timeline for withdrawing foreign forces. In ...