Chad’s former Prime Minister and opposition leader, Succès Masra, is appealing to French President Emmanuel Macron for ...

Chad announced an end to military cooperation with France November 28. On December 10, several hundred of the more than 1,000 French troops began leaving, but on December 31, Deby ordered the ...

However, the French have helped his father and predecessor in the past, such as when they bombed a rebel group coming from Libya in 2019. The withdrawal of the French military creates a new problem.

Chad’s military said French troops had left in vehicles for N’Djamena, 780km (480 miles) to the south, without providing a precise figure. The French army had about 1,000 personnel in the country.

Item 1 of 4 A French fighter jet prepares to take off, as France starts the withdrawal of its military from Chad with the departure of two warplanes, in N'Djamena, Chad, December 10, 2024.

Chad's government said on Thursday it has ended its defence cooperation pact with France, a move that could see French troops leave the Central African country. Skip to main content.

Hundreds of people have marched in Chad to call for the withdrawal of French troops from the country, a week after the Central African country ended a military agreement with its former colonial ruler ...

The French military has intervened there more often, and more decisively, than in any other African country, propping up regime after regime and even bombing rebels in 2019 to keep Chad’s ...

Chad hosts a significant French presence, with about 1,000 soldiers as well as warplanes stationed in the country. During the Operation Barkhane phase of France’s war in Mali, ...

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.