Senegal’s Faye meets Macron to reset relations post French troop exit

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday where he was welcomed by his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.

The talks over breakfast at the presidential palace came just weeks after France closed its last military bases in Senegal.

That brought an end to more than six decades of permanent presence in the country by the former colonial ruler, and follows similar withdrawals across the…