Ivory Coast has introduced that French troops will go away the nation this month after a decades-long navy presence, changing into the newest African nation to downscale navy ties with its former coloniser.
In an end-of-year deal with to the nation on Tuesday, President Alassane Ouattara stated the forty third BIMA marine infantry battalion at Port-Bouet in Abidjan – the place French troops had been stationed – “can be handed over” to Ivory Coast’s armed forces as of January 2025.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris studies.
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