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France starts withdrawal from former colony
Two French fighter jets left Chad on Tuesday, signaling the start of Paris’ withdrawal from the central African nation and a dramatic reduction in its military involvement in the wider Sahel region.
The Mirage warplanes left the Chadian capital of N’Djamena on Tuesday and returned to their base in eastern France. While France has more jets and around 1,000 soldiers in Chad, French military spokesman Colonel Guillaume Vernet told reporters that the move marked “the beginning of the return of French equipment stationed in N’Djamena.”
A French colony since the turn of the 20th century, Chad was granted independence in 1960. However, it remained tied to its former ruler through Paris’ control of the Central African CFA Franc and the presence of French troops since the 1980s.
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