The French defence minister says French-led forces have wrested control of the airport at the Islamist stronghold of Gao northeast of the Mali capital Bamako.
Three French soldiers who smothered a man to death with a plastic bag during a peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire were given suspended sentences by a French court on Friday.
Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara on Thursday thanked France’s François Hollande for the cancellation of his country’s debt to France at a meeting in ...
French forensic scientists are to carry out tests on the DNA of a skeleton found in Côte d'Ivoire on Friday to see if it is that of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who ...
The party of Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara looks set for victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election but may face problems with its closest political ally, ...
There was a low turnout Sunday in Côte d’Ivoire’s first general election after the ousting of former president Laurent Gbagbo, whose supporters boycotted the poll.