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Chad president says Macron 'in wrong era' over remarks on troop withdrawals

France's President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Chad president Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno for a working lunch at the Elysee palace in Paris, on February 6, 2023. [AFP]

Chad's president on Tuesday accused Emmanuel Macron of being "in the wrong era" after the French president said African countries "forgot to say thank you" for France's military deployment in the Sahel region to fight an Islamist insurgency.

"I'd like to express my outrage regarding recent remarks by President Macron which border on contempt for Africa and Africans. I think he is in the wrong era," President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said in a speech at the presidential palace published on the presidency Facebook page.

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