The French army will remain in Chad, says Jean-Marie Bockel, Emmanuel Macron's envoy to Africa. “We must stay and of course we will stay”, declared the only one invited.
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 French army, marking the end of a decade of anti-jihadist intervention in the Sahel.