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

STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the central African nation after nearly 70 years. The last French soldiers left ...

"We are not breaking off our relationship with France but we are ending the military dimension of this cooperation," Deby said at the base where only the Chadian flag was now flying. Chad must ...