The Chad Air Force commander has ordered the United States to stop activities at an air base near the capital N’Djamena.
The US has been forced to leave because it lacks supportive documents approving or allowing such military cooperation.
The United States has less than 100 rotational troops in Chad, focused on planning tasks for the region, a U.S. official said.
In the letter dated April 4 to Chad’s minister of armed forces, Air Force Chief of Staff Idriss Amine Ahmed said he had told the U.S. defence attache to halt U.S. activities at the Adji Kossei Air Base after “Americans” had failed to provide documents justifying their presence there.
Agreements on support for logistics and personnel did not suffice, Ahmed wrote in the letter.
“We ask you… to inform the Americans that we have made this decision,” he said.
Until now, the vast central African country has been a key partner for Western and regional militaries in a joint fight against a violent Islamist insurgency in neighbouring West Africa.
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