{"id":14409,"date":"2025-01-01T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/ivory-coast-says-french-troops-to-leave-country-after-decades\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:58:06","slug":"ivory-coast-says-french-troops-to-leave-country-after-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/ivory-coast-says-french-troops-to-leave-country-after-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast says French troops to leave country after decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4787176.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>In an end-of-year address to the nation on Tuesday, President Alassane Ouattara said the 43rd BIMA marine infantry battalion at Port-Bouet in Abidjan \u2013 where French troops were stationed \u2013 \u201cwill be handed over\u201d to Ivory Coast\u2019s armed forces as of January 2025, Al Jazeera reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can be proud of our army, whose modernization is now effective. It is in this context that we have decided on the concerted and organized withdrawal of French forces\u201d from Ivory Coast, Ouattara said.<\/p>\n<p>France, whose colonial rule in West Africa ended in the 1960s, has nearly 1,000 soldiers in Ivory Coast, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast is the latest West African nation to expel French troops after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. In November, within hours of each other, Senegal and Chad also announced the departure of French soldiers from their soil.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/226350\/Ivory-Coast-says-French-troops-to-leave-country-after-decades\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an end-of-year address to the nation on Tuesday, President Alassane Ouattara said the 43rd BIMA marine infantry battalion at Port-Bouet in Abidjan \u2013 where French troops were stationed \u2013 \u201cwill be handed over\u201d to Ivory Coast\u2019s armed forces as of January 2025, Al Jazeera reported.\u00a0 \u201cWe can be proud of our army, whose modernization &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}