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France starts 2025 with new controversy, questions about Africa

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Paris— France has started 2025 with a further reduction in its military presence in its former African colonies, sparking fresh tensions with controversial comments by French President Emmanuel Macron this week. Chad, Senegal and now Ivory Coast have followed Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in asking France to withdraw its troops from their soil. The … Read more

Chadian opposition says election should be canceled, calls for new changes

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Yaounde – An uneasy calm has descended on Chad, where the opposition is demanding the immediate end of the country’s transitional government and the cancellation of December. In the general elections of 2019, the opposition says that it was strongly boycotted. Chad’s election management body has promised to count the votes and announce the results, … Read more