{{Chad, one of the largest supplier of troops battling Islamists in Mali, has started to pull them out, President Idriss Deby has said.}}<\/p>\n
“The Chadian army does not have the skills to fight a shadowy, guerrilla-style war that is taking place in northern Mali,” he said.<\/p>\n
Three Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in Mali on Friday.<\/p>\n
Soldiers from Chad, France and other African countries have ousted Islamist militants from northern Mali’s towns.<\/p>\n
But fighting continues in some remote parts of the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n
Chad’s 2,000 troops were seen as playing a crucial role in the fighting because of their experience in desert warfare.<\/p>\n
About 30 have been killed – more than any other nationality. 3 of them died in a suicide attack in Kidal on Friday.<\/p>\n
Mr Deby told French media that Chad’s soldiers had “accomplished their mission”.<\/p>\n
“We have already withdrawn a mechanised battalion,” he said.<\/p>\n
But he said Chad would contribute to a proposed 11,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in Mali.<\/p>\n
France has also started to withdraw some of its 4,000 soldiers and hopes to have just 1,000 in the country by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
France led the intervention in January, saying the al-Qaeda-linked militants were threatened to march on the capital, Bamako.<\/p>\n
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