Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led against Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Damiba in September 2022.

As France hands back another base in Africa, experts question the future of its security cooperation on the continent and ...

A page has turned in Franco-Ivorian military relations, as France hands over the keys to its sole military base in Côte ...

France said on Thursday it would keep 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast largely for training purposes, as it handed over control of a military base in the commercial capital amid a scaling back of ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the interim leader of Burkina Faso, rose to power in September 2022 after leading a coup against ...

At its peak, about 1,000 French soldiers were stationed at the base to combat jihadist threats across the region. Despite the ...

The French Armed Forces Minister said some 80 servicemen will remain in the country to advise and train the Ivorian military.

African countries have had nine successful military coups since 2020. In west and central Africa, there have been at least 10 ...

The move in Ivory Coast comes just a week after Paris agreed to withdraw troops from neighboring Senegal by the end of the ...

France retains 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast for training as it hands over a military base, reducing its presence amid ...

By that point, Traoré had expelled military forces sent by France — Burkina Faso’s former colonial ruler — a decade earlier to help counter the swelling Islamist militancy. He had also ...

France returned its sole military base in Ivory Coast to local authorities, marking an end to decades of French presence at ...