FILE - Members of a French military flight crew talk on the tarmac at France's military air base in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) 37,094 people played ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - France handed over two military facilities to Senegal on Friday, the French embassy said, the first formal step in ending French military presence in the West African country as the ...

France set up a joint commission with Senegal last month to organize the withdrawal, and the French army recently announced it had dismissed 162 Senegalese who worked on military bases in Dakar.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — France handed control of two military facilities to Senegal on Friday, beginning the formal process of withdrawing its military presence from the West African country amid ...