A vast central African metropolis is thought to be the most francophone city globally, with more people speaking French there than Paris. Kinshasa, the capital and largest city of the Democratic ...

France focuses its solidarity efforts through grants to 19 priority countries, which all belong to the ... operated by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Africa is a key focus of French ...

Of the 300 million French speakers in the world by 2022, close to 50 percent lived in Africa, according to the Organisation ...

organized a workshop with parliamentarians from French-speaking African countries on their contributions to establishing effective defense and security policies in Africa. Co-funded by the Open ...

By the end of December 2020, the AFD had already dedicated€1.119 billion, 80% of which was for Africa, to help developing countries. Furthermore ... Between 2011 and 2018, the French Muskoka Fund ...

France’s military influence in Africa is waning as its troops have withdrawn from Chad and other ex-colonies, aligning with a ...

Here is an analysis in infographics. African leaders have “forgotten to thank France” for its military intervention in the Sahel, Emmanuel Macron said in his speech earlier this month to French ...

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

French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Jan 6 to French ambassadors that African countries had "forgotten to say thank you" to France for its decadelong military efforts in fighting ...