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Melissa Chemam with RFI

Senegal and Chad rebuke Macron over 'inaccurate' French troop withdrawal claims

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko during a press conference, in Dakar, on 26 September 2024. AFP - SEYLLOU

The Senegalese prime minister and the Chadian foreign minister have condemned claims made by Emmanuel Macron regarding negotiations about the withdrawal of French troops from several African countries, dismissing them as inaccurate.

Macron said during his discours that the announced withdrawal of French military bases had been negotiated between the African countries involved and France. He claimed it was purely out of convenience and politeness that France allowed these African nations to make the announcement first.

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