"France has not finished mourning its colonial past. That's one of the challenges of restitution", Senator Pierre Ouzoulias ...

France Withdraws from Senegal; Hands Over Last Two Bases in West Africa | Firstpost Africa | N18G France has officially ended ...

Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional backlash against what many see as the legacy of an oppressive colonial empire.V ...

FRANCE HAS finally ended its 65-year army presence in Senegal. The European country officially handed back Camp Geille, its ...

CAJ Africa, a leading pan-African news agency, successfully organized a roundtable in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together key ...

Earlier this year, France returned a "talking drum" seized in 1916 by French colonial forces from the Ebrie tribe to Ivory Coast. In 2019, then Prime Minister Edouard Philippe handed over a sword ...

Senegal announces closure of all foreign military bases as it cuts ties to ex-colonial power France Senegal’s then-opposition leader Ousmane Sonko adresses supporters in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday ...

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.

France still has 600 troops in Ivory Coast, 350 in Senegal and 350 in Gabon, as well as around 1,500 in Djibouti. It has had 1,000 troops in Chad.