France no longer has a military base in the Sahel or West Africa.
France no longer has a military base in the Sahel or West Africa. The last one—Camp Geille in Dakar and its airfield at Dakar airport—was handed back to Senegal on 17 July 2025. It was France’s largest installation in the country, and its return ended 65 years of permanent military presence there. The withdrawals were […] The post France no longer has a military base in the Sahel or West Africa. first appeared on The Zambian Observer .