St.-GEORGES-DE-L’OYAPOCK, French Guiana – From the canopied entryway of the border police headquarters here, where its commander, Pascal Rudeaux, goes to smoke a cigarette and watch the tropical rain ...

France's Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives at the Matoury Air Base 367, near Cayenne, French Guiana, Sunday, July 12, 2020. As virus numbers soar in French Guiana, France's new prime minister ...

Reporting from Oiapoque, Brazil — As Jose Domingos speeds down the Oiapoque River in his canoe once more today, he passes underneath a mammoth suspension bridge. By far the most imposing structure ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among residents ...

Bordering Suriname and Brazil, French Guiana (or more correctly, Guiana) is an overseas department and region of France; and just like in France, there are best places to visit in French Guiana before ...

Labour leaders behind massive strikes in French Guiana have rejected a billion dollar aid package offered by the French government, demanding instead $2.5 billion right away. The South American ...

Tensions have risen in the small Amazonian community of Saül in French Guiana after locals discovered that the French government approved a large-scale gold mining operation near their town—and inside ...

ST. JOSEPH ISLAND, French Guiana — Thick tropical vines wrap around rusty jail bars and trees grow inside cells in the 19th-century prison on this far-flung island off South America — a relic of ...

OF ALL the voters fuming about neglect by out-of-touch politicians in distant Paris, the people of French Guiana have perhaps the strongest case. It is the second-poorest of France’s five overseas ...