French troops will begin to withdraw from Ivory Coast in west Africa this month, marking the latest reduction of France’s military presence and a further weakening of western influence in the region.
Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara made the announcement in a new year’s address that French troops would pull out from a base in the main city of Abidjan this month.
“We can be proud of our army, which has now been effectively modernised. It is in this context that we have decided the concerted and organised withdrawal of French forces from Ivory Coast,” he said.
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