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Dropping France, Mahamat Kaka tilts to Turkey and the UAE

Ndjamena’s strategic switch helps Abu Dhabi more than Russia for now

Taking Paris by surprise on 20 December, the Chadian government ordered French troops to leave the country by the end of January, marking a final rupture after some clumsy diplomacy and an earlier statement abrogating a military agreement between the two countries.

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