Dead men tell tales

Ibn Omer Youssef Idriss, a Sudanese businessman, was shot dead at point blank range outside Chad's Foreign Ministry on 25 September. Six weeks later, on 6 November, four men who had been convicted of his murder with unprecedented speed were shot by firing squad. One was Adouma Ali Ahmed, also Sudanese and a former advisor to Chadian President Idriss Déby. Both the Sudanese were directors of the Chad Petroleum Company (CPC), so Chadians tend to suspect regime greed behind the affair.

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Ibn Omer Youssef Idriss, Adouma Ali Ahmed, Idriss Déby, Britain, Salah Idriss, United States, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, India, Mohamed Abdullah Jar el Nabi Abbas, Daoussa Déby, Paul Fontbonne, French, Taiwan, China, Hassan el Turabi, Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, Acheik, El Shifa, Bank el Islami lil Gharb el Sudan, Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, Akher Laaza

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