French troops will soon begin departing Ivory Coast, raising questions about what France's military presence in West Africa ...

Ivory Coast says that French troops will leave the country starting January 2025, becoming the latest African nation to ...

Ivory Coast has announced the withdrawal of French troops from its soil, effectively ending a military presence that has ...

French forces have also left Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger in recent months after a series of military coups.

The troops are expected to leave Ivory Coast this month as France, a former colonial power in West Africa, fast loses influence there. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Ivory Coast has ...

BBC Sport Africa reviews the continent's top moments in 2024, including historic achievements at the Olympics, Paralympics ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Tuesday that French forces would withdraw from the West African nation, continuing the former colonial power’s military exit from the region ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw ... Senegal and Chad. Of Africa’s former French colonies, only Djibouti and Gabon will continue to host French forces.

Ivory Coast announced that French troops will leave ... Outtara’s announcement on Tuesday follows that of other leaders across West Africa, where France’s militaries are being asked to leave.

including Ivory Coast, to 600 troops from around 2,200 now, sources told Reuters in November. France, whose colonial rule in West Africa ended in the 1960s, has already pulled its soldiers out of ...

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