🇨🇮🇫🇷Ivory Coast president says French forces to withdraw in January

🇨🇮🇫🇷Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year speech that French forces will withdraw from the West African nation in January, making it the latest country to weaken military ties with the former colonial power. Outtara said that Ivory Coast could be proud of its army "whose modernisation is now effective.

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