France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities. The move on Thursday came two months after the ...

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

The French Army received its first Griffon Mortier Embarqué Pour l'Appui au Contact (MEPAC) 6×6 self-propelled 120 mm mortar ...

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

The last French troops left the N'djamena military base they occupied for about 70 years this week, continuing France’s reduced military presence in West Africa. Chad's President Field Marshal ...

In December 2024, the French procurement agency (DGA) ordered new surface to air missiles (SAM) and counter UAS (C-UAS) ...

This decision was part of an historic regional trend: since 2022 with the French army withdrawing from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The withdrawals could also continue; in recent weeks ...

The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European interests in the region. #EuropeNews ...

On Thursday, the French army handed the Adij Kossei base – its last military compound in Chad – over to Chadian authorities, with President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno welcoming what he called ...

In a statement on Thursday, Chad’s army announced the French military’s handover to local authorities of the Sergent Adji Kossei air base in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena. France had already ...

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