France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation agreement with Paris.

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s shrinking military hold in its former West and Central Africa strongholds. N’Djamena abruptly cut ties with Paris in December and ended a military pact that saw 1,

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

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The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of both countries announced Thursday.The central African country in late November abruptly ended military cooperation with its former colonial ruler,

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France currently has 600 troops in Ivory Coast, 350 in Senegal and 350 in Gabon, as well as around 1,500 in Djibouti. It has had 1,000 troops in Chad. France’s Defense Ministry said the role of ...

Defence agreements broken with Chad and Senegal, controversy sparked by French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks, talks with Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon … Jean-Marie Bockel, the special envoy to the continent,

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