you thought you were in a quiet farmhouse somewhere in the South of France. “We started looking for a place two years ago,” Porte Jacquemus explains. “I was obsessed with the idea of doing a ...

In a few days, France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the run up is proceeding seamlessly without any rancour.

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military influence of the former colonial power in the region. In an end-of-year ...

Ivory Coast's economic capital ... our culture", he said. France once had a sizeable colonial presence in Africa and several of its former colonies in west Africa have sought to distance ...

Location. Hurricanes usually form off the coast of West Africa, where warm water near the Equator and high humidity create columns of rapidly rising rotating air. It's the perfect recipe for a storm.