France had backed Gabon's Bongo dynasty which ruled the ... That means the Libreville camp will be the only permanent French army base in Africa, along with Djibouti on the continent's eastern ...

Military officers stormed Gabon’s state TV Wednesday and said ... Large crowds supporting the coup gathered Sunday near the French military base in Niamey, with demonstrators displaying signs ...

At this stage, the precise number of French soldiers to be maintained at these bases in Libreville (Gabon), Dakar (Senegal) and Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) has not been set in stone. However ...

LIBREVILLE, March 1 (Reuters) - Emmanuel Macron landed in Gabon on Wednesday ... promising that French military bases in Africa would be co-run with host nations with fewer French troops on ...

where anti-French sentiment is on the rise. "The bases as they exist now are a heritage from the past," he told reporters at the Elysee palace in Paris two days before flying to Gabon, the first ...

The two governments recently agreed to transform Camp de Gaulle, the longstanding French base in Gabon, into a new training centre that they will operate jointly. Displaying a deft popular and ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country ... with 1,500 soldiers, and Gabon, with 350 troops.

France had backed Gabon's Bongo dynasty which ruled ... military command have been integrated into the military base, within which the French role will be reduced. The Libreville Defence Forces ...

Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country Thursday ... with 1,500 soldiers, and Gabon, with 350 troops. After expelling French troops, military ...