In 1899, the French included the land called French Dahomey within the French West Africa colony.

French Equatorial Africa () or the AEF was the federation of French colonial possessions in Central Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River to the Sahara.

Bangui, Central African Republic. The French language retains some of its former influence in the former French colonies in Africa.

That law was promulgated in former French West Africa and made applicable to the former colonies by an order dated 2 April 1927 (Official Journal of French West Africa, 1927, p. 297).

In French West Africa, only parts of the Senegalese Four Communes ever extended French citizensip outside a few educated African elite.

The French have now intervened more than 50 times in Africa since 1960.

A few days later, Bob Denard was evacuated to South Africa by French paratroopers.

Francis d'Alençon wonders why French interventions in Africa do not raise protests around the world

France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa.

After World War II, Europe was devastated, but still held large overseas colonies French West Africa, British East Africa, South Asia, and so forth.

Grumberg adds that most of the French interventions in Africa took place on former colonial soil

Nadine Bari is a French citizen who resides half the time in Guinea in West Africa and the other half on the French island Réunion, in the Indian ocean.

Mauritania was part of the larger French colony of French West Africa and, as such, had no capital during the colonial period Saint Louis, in Senegal, held that position.

The French Air Force participated in several protracted colonial wars in Africa and Indochina after the Second World War, and continues to employ its air power in Africa.

In 1910 Gabon became one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa, a federation that survived until 1959.

The 2005 regional training programme is planned for French speaking indigenous representatives of Africa at the end of 2005.

In 1955, he became head of the Office of High Commissioner of French West Africa (AOF) in Dakar, which was the highest position held by an African in the French colonial period.

President Jacques Chirac launched important reforms such as redeploying French military forces in Africa, and restructuring how France distributes aid.

Once upon a time, I intervene, therefore I am might as well have been a French motto, particularly in Africa.

(a) Recurrent publications Africa Renewal (four times a year) in English (8) Afrique Renouveau (four times a year) in French (8)

In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan.

Of the Luxembourgers, several of the NCOs and half of the troops had fought in North Africa in the French Foreign Legion.

He learned the Arab language very rapidly and after only two years was recruited as translator for the French Army in Africa.

Ségolène Royal, despite having been raised in Senegal when it was a French colony, appears disinterested in Africa, and her opponent, Nicolas Sarkozy, has evinced an interest in Africa only in the context of illegal immigration.

The interests of Africa remained at the forefront of the Department of Public Information's priorities, with its revamped publication Africa Renewal now reaching more than a million people (in English or French) and two new radio programmes specifically about Africa added to the Department's regular roster.

Legal definition Prior to independence from French West Africa, the flag of Niger was adopted by the Territorial Assembly of the Niger Colony on 23 November 1959, shortly before proclamation of the Republic within the French Community on 18 December 1959.

For the French, the US position will force a reevaluation of the importance of Africa in France s global strategy, given that the government s 2008 white paper on defense clearly minimized the continent s importance, most likely to justify a reduction in French ground forces.

Middle East and North Africa stories are particularly well represented on the Global Voices in French website, with over 100 posts translated in September and October 2009.

Under the reorganisation, the identification and destruction of terrorist networks both in metropolitan France and in francophone Africa will be the primary task of the French military.

IFAN (I.F.A.N., Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire or African Institute of Basic research) is a cultural and scientific institute in the nations of the former French West Africa.

Moreover, mistakes in Africa during the 1990 s, particularly in Rwanda, together with corruption scandals, have put pressure on French leaders to bring dramatic changes in foreign policy.

In their wake, a notable shift has emerged, with a new generation of politicians claiming to herald a fresh approach and profound changes in French policy towards Africa.

Whatever happens regarding Zimbabwe in Cannes will directly influence the EU Africa summit later this year. Unfortunately, that controversy may also overshadow the incipient changes in French policy.

Indeed, at independence, the Ivory Coast was the most prosperous state in French West Africa, with coffee and cocoa exports accounting for 40 of the region s total exports.

The first task of the Mediterranean battle squadrons was to escort transport ships carrying troops from French North Africa to France to join the Battle of the Marne.

The terrorist attacks on Western targets that he ordered include not only the Pan Am tragedy in Lockerbie, Scotland, but also a French UTA plane blown up over Africa.

The next regional training programme is planned for the latter part of 2005 for French speaking indigenous representatives from the Great Lakes region, and Central, Northern and Western Africa.

French poetry is a category of French literature.

Lauded by a substantial part of the Malian population and many outside observers, the military intervention diverts, however, from the non interventionist line professed by French President Hollande in Africa.

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Many French were troubled by the explosion of joy that followed the victory of the Algerian soccer team over Egypt in its qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Even before French President Charles de Gaulle took office in 1958, he foresaw the wave of revolutionary nationalism that would soon sweep across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.