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 ...

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 ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — France's President Emmanuel Macron has begun a tour of Central Africa in a diplomatic drive to test a new "responsible relationship" with the continent as anti-French ...

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 ...

Gabon: French forces have been stationed there since ... and an air unit at the nearby Guy Pidoux air base. Ivory Coast: home to French operational control. A Forward Operating Base (Fob) was ...

including at a military base in the capital, Libreville. Paris also has a wide range of economic interests linked to Gabon’s mining and oil sectors. Meanwhile, tensions are peaking in Niger amid mass ...