African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed “ingratitude” for the deployment of his nation’s troops in the Sahel region ...

Dozens of soldiers from Ukraine’s elite 155th Mechanized Brigade have deserted while undergoing training in France, AFP ...

Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers have deserted an elite brigade while undergoing training in France, according to AFP reports on Monday, citing a French military official. The 155th Mechanized Brigade, ...

Macron also rejected the suggestion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel amid poor relations with local leadership, an area below the Sahara Desert, telling the conference ...

The Sahel is a vast, three million sq km (1.16 million sq miles) area that stretches across Africa south of the Sahara desert, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea in the east. Mr Macron did not ...

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Does French President Emmanuel Macron, really understand the legacy ... dust left over from French nuclear testing in the Sahara desert blew across the Mediterranean, contaminating the French ...

Macron also dismissed the notion that French troops had been expelled from the Sahel, an area that sits just below the Sahara Desert, as Paris’ influence on its former colonies wanes.