President of Senegal: I will expel all foreign military forces in 2025
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted Rashatodi, “Basiro Diomai Faye” President of Senegal emphasized in his New Year’s message that In 2025, it will end the presence of all foreign military forces in Senegal.
He added in this regard: I have ordered the Ministry of Armed Forces to formulate new rules and regulations for cooperation with all friendly countries in the field of security and defense issues as strategic partners.
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The president of Senegal also announced in a conversation on Saturday that he considered the presence of French military bases in the country to be in conflict with the country’s national sovereignty.
He added: Senegal is an independent and sovereign country, and national sovereignty is incompatible with the presence of foreign military bases, and the French authorities should seek to establish a partnership apart from this military presence; But a strong and fruitful, clear and inclusive partnership similar to what we have with many other countries.
The President of Senegal stated: The presence or absence of the military does not mean breaking relations. Maba country has strong relations with many countries including China, Turkey, America and Saudi Arabia, and all these countries do not have a military base in Senegal.
He said: Today, China is our first trading partner in terms of investment and trade. Does China have a military base in Senegal? No, so is our relationship broken?
The president of Senegal continued by referring to Paris’s acknowledgment of responsibility for the massacre of the country’s colonial forces in Thyaruri near Dakar on December 1, 1944, which was announced to him in a letter from Emmanuel Macron, expressed satisfaction and welcomed this position and considered it an important step by Macron.
In the meantime, hours before the Foreign Ministry of Chad announced: the time has come is that Chad fully exercise its sovereignty after more than 6 decades of independence.
This ministry added: canceling the defense and security agreements with France is an action aimed at emphasizing national sovereignty and does not harm relations with Paris.
64 years have passed since the end of French colonialism on Chad, but in recent years the deployment of French forces in This country of 30 million people in the center of Africa, especially in the last four years, has been followed by a strong reaction from the opponents of the French military presence, and these oppositions continue.
France currently has 600 soldiers in Ivory Coast. France also has 1,000 troops in Chad in northern Central Africa.
France two years ago before as part of the operation against the organizations it considers terrorist, more than five thousand soldiers in The Sahel region of Africa, but it gradually withdrew its forces at the request of the armies that in 2021 in Mali, in 2022 in Burkina Faso and in 2023 in Niger came to power, he left.
