Conditions are propitious in West Africa for a comparative study of direct and indirect rule. British and French colonies alternate with one another along the coast, yet the environment differs very ...

French West Africa is a region of vast extent and magnificent distances ... Some stretches of even the main roads shown on the accompanying map are impassable during the rainy period, partly on ...

Virginie Baudais, senior researcher and director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Sahel and West Africa Programme ... taken place alongside French and US troops as ...

France has given up most of its military footprint across west Africa with astonishing speed. By the end of the year, the only remaining French base in Africa will be in Djibouti. Driven by ...

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

Map: The Economist Most prominent among ... For decades the market share of French businesses in west Africa has been dipping. But some of France’s biggest firms—for instance Orange, a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

French troops have been fighting insurgent groups linked to the Islamic state and al Qaeda across West Africa since 2014. Despite their military presence, French troops failed to quell the ...

“In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa,” said La Graviére, “I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s ...