DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo's government and the M23 rebel group will hold peace talks on March 18, mediator Angola says.

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 ...

France on Friday said it had transferred two military bases in the Marechal and Saint-Exubery districts of Dakar to Senegalese ... up a joint commission with Senegal to organise the arrangements ...

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 — 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 its ...