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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 45 No 21
  •  22nd October 2004

A model?

The World Bank's scheme for ensuring the oil revenue is spent on poverty alleviation is necessarily complex. Some 85 per cent of royalties and dividends go to priority sectors such as health, education and agriculture, but this assumes a functioning state...

  • Vol 45 No 18
  •  10th September 2004

Déby's dilemma

The conflict in Darfur threatens N'djamena more than Khartoum

  • Vol 45 No 8
  •  16th April 2004

Rebels all round

President Déby looks vulnerable but the French and American governments see no credible alternative

  • Vol 44 No 25
  •  19th December 2003

The language of weapons

A sick President and armed uprisings threaten attempts to share out the oil more fairly

  • Vol 44 No 25
  •  19th December 2003

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...

  • Vol 43 No 17
  •  30th August 2002

Digging a hole

The World Bank appears to be struggling to create transparency but at least it's trying

  • Vol 42 No 22
  •  9th November 2001

Desert fox

President Déby wants oil, needs friends and fears prosecution

  • Vol 42 No 19
  •  28th September 2001

Dodgy dinars

British authorities have seized a consignment of fake Bahraini dinars which arrived in the country allegedly via the Chadian presidency.

  • Vol 42 No 12
  •  15th June 2001

Fraud storm

Déby must win back the donors' confidence - the people's confidence is another matter

  • Vol 41 No 14
  •  7th July 2000

Under fire

Work is scheduled to start late this year on the controversial US$3.7 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline following the World Bank's June decision to lend the project $193 million. Chad's Doba Basin could be producing oil by 2004; the pipeline will take the oi...

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