Who will the land heritage benefit from?

The wind turns to Dakar. A decision long whispered in sovereignist circles has just been acted at the top of the state: French troops will leave the Senegalese soil. A historical break. For more than sixty years, their presence has been part of the military, diplomatic, almost identity landscape of the country. But that Friday, in the cozy shade of the Palais de la République, the ax fell. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, brought to power on a wave of Pan -Africanist renewal and aspirations, has just crossed a line that his predecessors had never dared to cross. Why now? What message hides this military withdrawal? Is it a simple strategic readjustment or the beginning of a deep geopolitical recomposition in West Africa? And above all, what will become of the vast land holders occupied for decades by the French forces? In Dakar, the walls speak. And the silence of the barracks becomes a thrill of independence. Departure of French soldiers: sovereignty or spoliation?