Paris worries at the lack of progress in the Chad talks hosted by Doha which are supposed to find an arrangement between several armed groups and the regime led by Gen Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka' son of the late ruler Idriss Déby Itno (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
These are the details that were due to be worked out on 16 February when President Emmanuel Macron hosted the presidents of G5 Sahel members Mauritania Niger and Chad Mohamed Ould Ghazouani Mohamed Bazoum and Mahamat Déby...
Some also speculate that Russia could encourage Chadian armed groups such as FACT and UFR to launch operations from Libya and CAR to further weaken the problematic transition in Chad led by Mahamat Idriss Déby (Idriss Déby Itno's son)...
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Vol 63 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The fifth country to come under military rule in the past year was Chad where Mahamat Idriss Déby took over after the death of his father President Idris Déby Itno...
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- BURKINA FASO
Kaboré – who met with President Emmanuel Macron President Bazoum and interim Chadian leader Mahamat Déby on the margins of the Libya conference in Paris on 12 November – was comfortably re-elected last year...
For Chad's new leader Mahamat Déby it is critical that these dissidents don't quit the RSF in favour of opposition armed groups in Libya or in Darfur...
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They are likely to do more on Islamic State West African Province and Boko Haram also giving air support to UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic and more problematically to Chad's junta under Mahamat Déby Itno...
France sided with Chad's new ruler General Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka' and condemned the attack saying it was 'firmly attached to the stability and territorial integrity of Chad' (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
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 the repayment of mammoth loans from a syndicate led by giant Swiss commodities trader Glencore (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
Abakar Sabone have family connections with Déby's son General Mahamat Idriss Déby now in charge in Ndjamena...
