France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. In ...

France set up a joint commission with Senegal last month to organize the withdrawal, and the French army recently announced it had dismissed 162 Senegalese who worked on military bases in Dakar.

Paris began pulling out its forces from Senegal in March, during which it transferred the Marechal and Saint-Exupery military ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Senegal and France will set up a joint commission to organize the departure of French troops from Senegal and the restitution of French military bases by the end of 2025, the ...

France reportedly set up a joint commission with Senegal last month to organise the restitution of military bases and the ...

On the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development, the presidents of Senegal and France, ...

Senegal's prime minister said on Friday that the government is closing "all foreign military bases," an announcement essentially aimed at France, the West African nation's former colonial power.

Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a cemetery at the former military camp of Thiaroye outside Dakar, where French ...

France, Senegal say in talks to arrange departure of French troops. By Reuters. February 12, 2025 3:53 PM UTC Updated February 12, 2025 PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Senegal and ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, noting that it was “incompatible” with Senegal’s national sovereignty.

France handed over a military communications centre located in Rufisque, near Dakar, on Tuesday. Senegal's President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye announced late last year that the former colonial power ...

France's military and Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to the announcement. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye last month expressed his desire to close the French bases in Senegal.