Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Tuesday that French forces would withdraw from the West African nation, ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year speech that French forces will withdraw from the West African ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...

Ivory Coast says that French troops will leave the country starting January 2025, becoming the latest African nation to ...

French troops will begin to withdraw from Ivory Coast in west Africa this month, marking the latest reduction of France’s ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year address on Tuesday that the French military would hand over ...

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 ...

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 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said ... should be proud of the modernised state of their own armed forces. "In this context, we have decided on the coordinated and ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in ... “I have instructed the minister for the armed forces to propose a new doctrine for cooperation in defence and security, involving, among ...

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 of ...