Senegal has been distanced from the colonial past, after the trend passed over the West and Central Africa since 2022.
France and Senegal set the conditions for withdrawing all French soldiers stationed in West African land by the end of this year.
Two countries on Wednesday stated that they were establishing a joint committee that would oversee the “departure of French elements” from the country and “restitution [military] Base ”by the end of the year.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of both countries have said that they intend to work on a “new defense and security partnership” that will take into account the “strategic priorities of all sides”.
In November, Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced that the French army bases were “incompatible” with the sovereignty of the country, and his 350 soldiers should leave.
That move came just before Senegal marked the 80th anniversary mass murders West African soldiers of colonial forces in 1944.
Tirailleurs Soldiers Senegalais, who fought in the war of France against Nazi Germany, protested against the delays in wages and poor living conditions when colonial soldiers fired at them.
French President Emmanuel Macron in a letter to Faye acknowledged last year that France had committed a “massacre”.
Senegal’s rejection of his colonial past continues the trend in Western and Central Africa, where nations reduce ties with France.
At the end of January, France completed with a hull withdrawal from Chad while The shore of ivory Earlier, they announced the withdrawal of French forces.
The tone was very different from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, whose military governments collectively knocked out about 4,300 French soldiers from their 2022 countries. Three countriesFrance refused to support the state strikes that brought them to power.
