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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 47 No 24
  •  1st December 2006

Sudan targets Chad

Chadian rebels launch a new offensive against President Déby after fresh backing from the Sudan government

  • Vol 47 No 22
  •  3rd November 2006

Wars across borders

Khartoum is exporting its Darfur holocaust to Chad and sparking regional fires

  • Vol 47 No 19
  •  22nd September 2006

Déby supreme, for now

Standing up to donors and oil companies, Déby looks all-powerful - until the next rebel advance

  • Vol 47 No 9
  •  28th April 2006

Déby hangs on

France and the USA belatedly worry about the rebellion - Khartoum helps foment it

  • Vol 47 No 9
  •  28th April 2006

Foreign fingers

Since 2003, Paris has both backed President Idriss Déby and tried to prevent its allies discussing Chad. This has weakened Chad's unarmed opposition, which has anyway been manipulated by the regime and by Sudan.

  • Vol 47 No 7
  •  31st March 2006

On the frontline

Darfur's troubles are fuelled by violence flowing both ways across the Chadian border, some of it orchestrated by the Sudanese regime. Meanwhile, President Idriss Déby Itno clings to power only by grace of armed men from his Zakawa (Zaghawa) people...

  • Vol 47 No 2
  •  20th January 2006

Changing regimes

The World Bank is insisting that borrowers keep their promises on transparency

  • Vol 46 No 23
  •  18th November 2005

Fear changes sides

The 15 November arrest in Senegal of Chad's ex-President Hissène Habré may lead to the first trial abroad of a dictator. 'Fear is finally changing sides', a lawyer for some of his alleged victims, Boucounta Diallo, observed.When in 2001 huma...

  • Vol 46 No 2
  •  21st January 2005

Chinese walls

President Idriss Déby is on the campaign trail for a referendum on changing the constitution to give him a third term in office. Many of the gifts he generously distributes - a new road here, a water tower there - are financed by aid from Taiwan. A...

  • Vol 45 No 21
  •  22nd October 2004

Show us the money!

Both Chadians and donors want President Déby to spend his oil revenues wisely

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