Special envoy to N'Djamena
Vehicles arriving from Gao are easy to recognize: “
They are covered in dust
,” notes Captain Toni.
At the end of Camp Kosseï, the French military base in N'Djamena in Chad, the officer commanding "
maintenance
" observes the rows of trucks and armored vehicles parked in the vast parking lot.
Of the approximately 160 vehicles for which he is responsible, around fifty have just made the journey from Mali, via Niger.
The bodywork bears the traces of 2000 km of road.
The French withdrawal from Mali, completed on August 15, is still recent.
"
The disengagement went quite quickly
", continues Captain Toni who admits to having had a few cold sweats on the state of the equipment.
In the Sahel, the sand eats away.
From now on, these materials will be used less.
A dozen VBLs, light armored vehicles, and a few VABs, forward armored vehicles, will however equip a new tactical sub-group which will settle in N'Djamena, and which already has one...
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