France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati became on Monday the first French official to make a formal visit to the Western Sahara, a sign of Paris's recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed ...

France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the ...

Many countries have their worst showing in more than a decade in an index that serves as a barometer of public sector ...

US President Donald Trump has announced he will cut off all future funding to South Africa pending an investigation, after claiming that the country was “confiscating” land and “treating ...

France’s presence in Africa has been in sharp decline in recent years, a sign of the gradual end of its influence on the continent. As the Sahel countries have successively ended their military ...

Protesters burned an effigy of Rubio wearing a red, white and blue suit and held up pictures of him and Trump before a Nazi flag ... mostly people of African descent from Barbados, Jamaica ...

This was France's last foothold in the region, West Africa's vast expanse below the Sahara desert. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger all kicked the French army out following coup d'états in recent years ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond ... after his latest show at Paris Fashion Week in France on Monday. [THIERRY CHESNOT / GETTY IMAGES] In the ...

MATTHEW JACOBS / AFP This woman flies the flag for Liberia ahead ... Bocuse d'Or pastry contest in France on Friday. Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.

PARIS (AP) — A special mailbox for children to flag abuses was set up Thursday at a Paris primary school, a first in the French capital as part of nationwide effort to encourage more victims of ...

Geraldine Gythiel, head of a Paris primary school, presents a special mailbox for children to flag abuses, a first in the French capital as the country has seen in recent years more victims of ...