ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a
month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep
troops based there, an American general said Wednesday.The U.S. said last month it was withdrawing most of its contingent of
about 100 troops from Chad after the government questioned the
legality of their operations there. This followed Niger’s decision to
order all U.S. troops out of the country, dealing a blow to U.S.
military operations in the Sahel, a vast region south of the Sahara
desert where groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group
operate.U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley, the commander of U.S. Africa
Command, made the comments to reporters in Ghana at the second annual
African Maritime Forces Summit, or AMFS.
Does Chad have any geostrategic value for the United States? Chad wants the U.S. military out of the country, but the U.S. insist that they want to keep its troop there trying to arrange talks with the country within a month. My question is what geostrategic value the country holds, because obviously there must be a geostrategic value to having troops stationed there.
