The Forum d'affaires France-Tchad was held on 25 September 2026 at the Salons Hoche in Paris, co-organized by MEDEF International and the government of Chad. The event concluded with signed conventions and protocols, according to Tchadinfos, Alwihda Info, Sikafinance, Toumai Web Medias and ATPE. Named agreements include a livestock and animal-health partnership between Chadian firm Groupe Kibervet and Ceva Santé Animale covering veterinary products and services and the construction of a modern abattoir, a research-center memorandum of understanding between MOBIS and Chad's competent ministry for higher education and research, health-sector agreements with Ellipse Group covering health-center construction and nurse training, an entrepreneurship-school partnership with MK Formation, and a protocol between Africa Global Logistics (AGL) and Chad around the Toukra dry-port project intended to ease customs, storage and freight-handling capacity.
Attendance figures diverge across outlets covering the same event. Pre-event previews citing a French embassy communiqué, and a later Tchadinfos recap, put expected attendance at roughly 300 companies (100 French, 200 Chadian). ATPE's post-event report also cited "plus de 300" companies attending, split the same way. By contrast, Tchadinfos' own closing report, Alwihda Info and Sikafinance all cited 250 companies as having taken part, while a separate Onama report put the figure at "plus de 150" economic operators. The gap between these figures — expected versus actual, and varying post-event tallies from 150 to over 300 — was not reconciled by organizers or in any of the reports reviewed.
The forum is framed by organizers as implementation machinery for Chad's $30 billion, 268-project 'Tchad Connexion 2030' development plan, which was launched in November 2025 in Abu Dhabi and builds on $20.5 billion in investment pledges gathered there — about two-thirds of the plan's overall target, according to Sikafinance. The event follows a 29 January 2026 Paris meeting between President Emmanuel Macron and Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno. French-language reports describe the outcomes as "signature de conventions et protocoles d'accord," and Sikafinance noted that the financial amounts and implementation timelines tied to the agreements had not yet been made public, leaving unclear whether the agreements are binding contracts or non-binding memoranda. No Reuters, AFP or Bloomberg coverage of the deals' monetary values was identified; coverage so far comes from Chadian, pan-African and organizer-linked outlets.
Chad has not formally joined the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) bloc that groups Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, even though a Chadian delegation visited Mali in early 2024 to discuss possible membership. This distinguishes Chad's continued economic engagement with Paris — underscored by the Paris forum — from the anti-French realignment pursued by the three core AES states, though some regional analysts describe Chad's posture toward the AES bloc as cautiously sympathetic rather than fully neutral.