Chadian authorities expelled the German ambassador last Friday, giving him 48 hours to leave the country. Chadian Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif said that "Germany's ambassador to Chad Jan-Christian Gordon Kreke traveled on an Air France flight on Saturday evening" A source in the German Foreign Ministry said: "The reasons that led the government of Chad to declare our ambassador in N'Djamena persona non grata are completely incomprehensible" local media suggest that the reason for the expulsion was the ambassador's criticism of the current transitional government.