Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Tuesday that ... Ouattara said Ivorians should be proud of the modernised state of their own armed forces. "In this context, we have ...
Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will ... were stationed – “will be handed over” to Ivory Coast’s armed forces as of January 2025. “We can be proud of our army, whose ...
wage war on security forces and officials across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Increasingly, armed groups have made incursions into the coastal Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Benin. Ivorian soldiers ...
Several African nations have expelled French troops, signaling a significant decline in the former colonial power’s influence ...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year speech that French forces will withdraw from the West Afr ... Ivory Coast's 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara Thursday said he was ...
Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara ... said Ivorians should be proud of the modernised state of their own armed forces. “In this context, we have decided on the coordinated and organised ...
ABIDJAN, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ... should be proud of the modernised state of their own armed forces. "In this context, we have decided on the coordinated ...
said in his speech that the 43rd BIMA marine infantry battalion at Port-Bouet in Abidjan — where French troops are currently stationed — "will be handed over" to Ivory Coast's armed forces as ...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said ... January 2025 and noted that Ivorians should be proud of their own armed forces. Speaking in an end-of-year address to the nation, Ouattara said ...