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Senegal president says France should close military bases

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye poses for a portrait inside the Presidential Palace in Dakar on November 28, 2024. Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP on November 28, 2024 that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial slaughter. [AFP]

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial slaughter.

Faye said that France's President Emmanuel Macron had admitted that his country's troops were responsible for a "massacre" of Senegalese soldiers in 1944.

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