US EditionIvory Coast Announces Withdrawal of French Troops After Decades-Long Presence
- Ivory Coast announced that French troops will leave the country after a decades-long military presence.
- The pull-out will begin in January 2025, as stated by Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara.
- The military infantry battalion of Port Bouët will be handed over to Ivorian troops.
- The move reflects the modernization of the country's armed forces, according to President Alassane Ouattara.
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Ivory Coast announced that French troops would leave their base in Abidjan in January. The withdrawal of French troops is another sign of the decline of Western influence in the West African region.
French troops to withdraw from Ivory Coast
The NewsIvory Coast said French troops will withdraw from the nation, part of Paris’ wider retreat from its former colonies.France’s forces also left Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Nigeria in recent months, after a series of military coups. France’s exit was seen as an opportunity for Russia. But the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria revealed Moscow’s underlying weakness, an analyst wrote in Foreign Policy: It “was unable to defend it…
Ivory Coast joins West African nations asking French troops to leave - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Ivory Coast’s president announced the withdrawal of French troops from the country, joining a growing number of francophone states that have asked the former colonial power to relinquish its military presence in West Africa.
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