A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:From the BBC in Africa this week: ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late ...

Officers from the French and Chadian army salute as the French flag is lowered during a ceremony marking the departure of French soldiers from a military base in Abeche, Chad, on Saturday. JORIS ...

Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Chad have joined three West African countries — Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso — asking for French troop’s withdrawal, marking a major blow to France’s waning ...

Officers from the French ... flag is lowered during a ceremony marking the departure of French soldiers from a military base in Abeche, Chad, on Saturday. JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP The recent moves by two ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...

supporters of the military government praise their decision to forge the Alliance of Sahel States with other junta-led neighbours and drop out of the long-established West African regional ...

Dakar and Paris are setting up a joint commission to arrange the departure of French troops from Senegal's territory by the ...

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