A Chadian soldier was shot at point-blank range and killed by a French military medic in the Borkou region, sparking massive protests. Chadian soldiers fired at the protesters with live ammunition as they tried to enter the French military base.

The French medic opened fire on Mahamat Dakou Hamid after an allegedly tense situation where the local soldier wounded the Frenchman with a scalpel. There is still no official statement from Paris, whose troops have been in Chad, a French colony until 1960, for over 40 years.

Amid growing anti-French sentiment and protests calling for the withdrawal of French troops regionally, the government indefinitely imposed a regional ban on protests. Several injuries were reported following the initial unrest.

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