Found my solution here
in the following line after hours of researching for an answer. This little line is one thing that is left out by all tutorials and most answers
Remember that your filenames have to be fr_FR.po & fr_FR.mo (depending on your language) and not domain-fr_FR.xx like the plugins do.
So I just changed the po and mo filenames accordingly
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