Macron's envoy: French forces will remain in Chad. France's influence in its former colonies in West Africa declined after the new regimes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger expelled its forces from their territories.
About a thousand French soldiers are stationed in Chad, which has been ruled by General Mohamed Idriss Deby since 2021. Deby's main rival, his cousin Yaya Dilo Djiro, was killed last week in an incident that Dilo's party described as an "execution"