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Chad
Population: 10.2 mn.
GDP: 8.5 bn.
Debt: 1.4 bn.
Overview:

President Idriss Déby Itno's 83.6% election victory- in the face of an opposition boycott- won't help his legitimacy. Despite oil revenues, the economy will be hard hit by regional instability after the fall of Gadaffi. The Sudan regime's killing of Déby's cousin and JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim will hinder rapprochement with Khartoum.

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  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Mastering the militias

Under pressure from Chad, the President is neutralising the militias in the north, amid questions about whether the peace can last

  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Déby on top

President Idriss Déby Itno has been winning presidential elections since December 1990 and the 25 April poll is likely to prove no exception. With the opposition boycott, turnout was expected to provide the only question mark: early results suggested...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

A new strategy for Darfur

With all eyes on the South and preparations for January’s referendum, Khartoum has stepped up its attacks in Darfur

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Tactical defeat

The Chadian rebel offensive began straight after the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie had tried to break the stalemate in talks between President Idriss Déby and his civilian opposition on 30 April, and after yet another peace deal between C...

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Who shoots first?

The regimes in N’djamena and Khartoum are preparing for another proxy war, this time with more guns and better technology

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

Déby – caught between Paris and Khartoum

President Déby's struggle for survival is not over and its outcome will have huge regional ramifications

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

Beyond the borders

Chad and Sudan have been meddling in each other's politics for 30 years, and the semi-nomadic peoples who straddle the border (including President Idriss Déby Itno's Zaghawa) complicate the relationship. President Idriss said this month that Chad w...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

Delays in deployment

As fighting in Chad worsens, Lieutenant General Nash promises all EUFOR troops will be on the ground by mid-May

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

Papers and death merchants

Newspapers in Paris and Brussels have been full of accusations about Chad. French, Belgian and South African companies cooperated in supplying armoured vehicles to President Idriss Déby Itno's Presidential Guard, according to The Bulletin, an English-lang...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

In loco parentis

The trial of nine French and seven Spanish citizens accused of abducting 103 children from the Chad/Sudan border region on 25 October will damage France’s relationship with Chad and prove a useful diplomatic tool for President Idriss Déby Itn...

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