Vol 64 No 11 | CHAD Succès on K-Street 25th May 2023 Opposition leader Succès Masra and his party, Les Transformateurs, have taken on the K-Street lobby shop, Scribe Strategies, led by Republican operative Joseph Szlavik, one ...
Vol 64 No 5 | CHADSUDAN Border troubles threaten the region 23rd February 2023 The Chad-Sudan frontier and the restive militias which straddle it are looming larger as tensions rise On 29 January, Sudan's military leader, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, went to Ndjamena to discuss growing insecurity on the Chad-Sudan border. No surprises there, perhaps, but th...
Vol 64 No 4 | CHAD Kaka falls back on authoritarianism 16th February 2023 The President has abandoned the trappings of 'transition' and is consolidating his rule for the long run Many of the efforts to broaden the support base of the regime of President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (aka Mahamat 'Kaka') during last year's reconciliation exercise included ...
Vol 63 No 25 | CHADFRANCE Bang go the reforms 15th December 2022 The credibility of the regime's bid for wider legitimacy is in tatters after it emerged on 5 December that a military court had sentenced 262 of those detained after demonstrations...
Vol 63 No 22 | CHAD Massacre threatens transition plan 2nd November 2022 Mahamat Déby's plan to stay on at least until late 2024 and keep control of security is in question after state forces brutally suppressed demonstrations Interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' and his 'inclusive' new government, which boasts reconciled oppositionists and reformed militia leaders, is in deep crisis ...
Vol 62 No 18 | CHAD Hey, big lender 9th September 2021 Glencore's huge lending habits have earned the Swiss commodities trader a ticking off from the International Monetary Fund. In a 7 September statement, Abebe Aemro Selassie, the he...
Vol 62 No 13 | CHADGABONCONGO-KINSHASAUNITED NATIONS Gabon ires fellow Africans at the UN 22nd June 2021 A bitter dispute between African Union members over a non-permanent seat on the Security Council has broken into the open Furious argument has erupted over the normally placid elections by the UN General Assembly for one of the two non-permanent seats reserved for African countries on the UN Security ...
Vol 62 No 11 | CHAD Oil-backed loans cast shadow 27th May 2021 President Déby's death has put the debt crisis negotiations on hold but Glencore faces pressure to make concessions A month after Mahamat Idriss Déby took the helm in Chad in the wake of his father's death in April, huge questions remain over the country's economic fortunes, notably over ...
Vol 62 No 9 | CHAD Death on the front line, a coup, and then an about turn 29th April 2021 Having endorsed a takeover by General Mahamat Déby after his father's death, France and the African Union are having second thoughts Within a week of the killing of President Idriss Déby Itno on the front line in the early hours of 20 April, his international allies had twice changed their policy stance. READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 9 | CHADFRANCESAHEL Regional leaders pay homage to Déby at funeral summit 23rd April 2021 The death of Chad's just re-elected warrior-president could undermine the regional anti-jihad campaign and leaves a political vacuum at home Although the full facts of how President Idriss Déby Itno met his death on 19 April are yet to emerge, his successors and regional leaders have tough choices ahead. Chad's national...
