Chad: Macron's envoy to Africa says the French army will remain. There are currently a thousand French soldiers in Chad.

After a series of coups d'état in Mali, Burkina Faso and then Niger, the military juntas pushed out the FrenchArmy. “It is not only the question of numbers, we must stay and of course we will stay,” insisted Jean-Marie Bockel, in a speech broadcast on the website of the Chadian presidency.