France will also be expelled from the Ivory Coast

According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, according to Reuters, Cote d’Ivoire will end several decades of French military presence in this country.

The announcement of this decision by the president of Ivory Coast is the latest move by African countries to reduce relations with the former colonial power of the continent.

The President of Ivory Coast said in the last hours of 2024 that the withdrawal of French troops will begin in the first weeks of the new year.

France has so far 600 troops in Ivory Coast.

With the spread of anti-colonial sentiments, after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, in recent months Senegal and Chad have also demanded the withdrawal of French troops from their countries.

France has been expelled from more than 70% of the African countries in which it had deployed troops since the end of colonialism, and currently only in Djibouti and Gabon, less than 2 thousand has a deployed force.