The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known ...

ABUJA, Nigeria -- 3 coup-hit West African nations formally leave ECOWAS in an unprecedented disintegration of the regional ...

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Despite the troop withdrawals, France will continue efforts to combat terrorism spreading from the Sahel to West Africa's coastal nations, including Ivory Coast. In 2021, the two countries ...

By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Ivory Coast has announced that French forces will withdraw from its territory, following in the footsteps of several other West African countries and ...

Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong ... follows that of other leaders across West Africa, where France's military is being asked to ...

Ivory Coast is home to the biggest remaining contingent of French troops in West Africa. There are some 600 French military personnel in the country with 350 in Senegal. "We have decided in a ...