Chad and Senegal have sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s comments about the withdrawal of French troops from Africa, where he accused some African leaders of \u201cingratitude\u201d and claimed their sovereignty depended on French military presence.<\/p>\n
Senegal\u2019s Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, dismissed Macron\u2019s claim that troop withdrawals involved negotiations, calling it \u201ccompletely erroneous.\u201d He asserted Senegal\u2019s decision was made independently as a sovereign nation and accused France of destabilizing African countries, citing Libya as an example.<\/p>\n
Chad\u2019s Foreign Minister, Abderaman Koulamallah, condemned Macron\u2019s remarks as \u201cdisrespectful\u201d to Africans and highlighted Chad\u2019s sacrifices during both World Wars. He criticized France\u2019s military presence in Chad as serving French interests without fostering local development.<\/p>\n
Chad\u2019s withdrawal of French forces remains on schedule, with troops set to leave their final base by January 31, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chad and Senegal have sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s comments about the withdrawal of French troops from Africa, where he accused some African leaders of \u201cingratitude\u201d and claimed their sovereignty depended on French military presence. Senegal\u2019s Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, dismissed Macron\u2019s claim that troop withdrawals involved negotiations, calling it \u201ccompletely erroneous.\u201d He asserted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Africa News + Agencies","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2362,1129,27],"tags":[475,164,1203,283],"class_list":["post-14776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-featured","category-security","category-west-africa","tag-chad","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-ousmane-sonko","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}