llgames168 A Staunch Ally in Africa Says French Forces Will Withdraw

2025-01-06 04:27

Ivory Coast has announced that French forces will withdraw from its territory, following in the footsteps of several other West African countries and further reducing France’s waning power in the region.

French troops will leave Ivory Coast this month after handing over a military camp in a suburb of the country’s economic capital, President Alassane Ouattara said in an address broadcast to the nation Tuesday night.

France, a major former colonial power in Africa, confirmed the withdrawal, which follows similar announcements from West African countries, most recently Chad and Senegal.

France’s military presence in Africa will soon be limited to troops in Djibouti and Gabon — a far cry from its many troops that were stationed in the Sahel fighting jihadists just three years ago.

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Mr. Ouattara said that the Ivorian Army had been modernized to such a degree that French troops, of which there were about 600 in the country, were no longer needed.

“We can be proud of our army, whose modernization is now complete,” he said in a New Year’s Eve address to the nation. “It is in this context that we have decided on the coordinated and organized withdrawal of French forces from the Ivory Coast.”

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