France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony ...

President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which ...

The Central African nation announced the end of bilateral military pact with Paris last November - Anadolu Ajansı ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks about African countries’ "ingratitude" for France’s role in ...

The declaration caught Paris off guard. But Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby was quick to emphasise the move did not mean severing ties. "The decision in no way constitutes a rejection of ...

adding that Paris often focused only on achieving what he called French strategic interests. Caman Bedaou Oumar, a political affairs consultant and researcher at Chad’s Consortium for ...

Paris has “often contributed to destabilizing certain African countries like Libya with disastrous consequences noted on the stability and security of the Sahel,” he added. Chad Foreign ...

Senegal, Chad and Ivory Coast last month announced the departure of French troops just as Paris was devising a new strategy that would sharply reduce its permanent troop presence in Africa.

In response, Deby said that Chad is not benefiting much from military agreements with Paris and that the order for French troops to leave was irreversible and nonnegotiable. Government officials ...

Chad gave Paris six weeks to remove 1,000 soldiers and their equipment by Jan. 31. The Chadian Foreign Ministry announced Nov. 28 the end of military cooperation with France. France withdrew fighter ...