France has transferred control of a fourth military site to Senegal, the French Embassy in Dakar has announced in a statement ...

France has officially handed over its military base in Rufisque, a western city in Senegal, marking another step in its ...

In a sharp pivot from its self-declared policy of neutrality, Hungary has approved the deployment of 200 soldiers to Chad — ...

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 ...

France had already handed over its two other military bases — Faya in the north and Abeche in the east of the country — in late December and early January. The French army had around 1,000 ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad — 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 ...

At its peak, France maintained 1,000 personnel in Chad, making it the last Sahel nation to host French troops after withdrawals from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

He explained that Chad has a kind of mistrust towards France and the EU. And given Chad's rapprochement with Russia and other players such as Turkey, this did not please the French authorities.

According to the Chadian Ministry of the Armed Forces, Veterans, and Victims of War, France has formally turned over its ...

France still 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.

The last time France intervened directly to protect the government was in 2019, when it launched airstrikes against rebels moving into Chad from neighboring Libya.