French army to close Senegal base 50 years after independence

SENEGAL - France: France announced Tuesday it would shut down its military base in former colony Senegal and pull out all but 300 of its 1,200 troops there, a move Dakar had lobbied for to mark the 50th anniversary of its independence.

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