On 20 October 2022 he signalled his policy with the shooting of over 200 demonstrators hundreds more being detained and sent to a desert prison where many disappeared and in February last year when his security forces killed his cousin Yaya Dillo Djérou (AC Vol 65 No 6 Kaka paves a hard road to sham poll)...
Others say his sacking owes more to Zaghawa politics: IYB was unwilling to take the heat for the killing of opposition leader Yaya Dillo Djérou (a cousin and a rival of Mahamat Kaka)...
In February Mahamat Kaka's cousin and political rival Yaya Dillo Djérou was killed in a clash with the FIR that his supporters say was a targeted assassination (AC Vol 65 No 6 Kaka paves a hard road to sham poll)...
Once he had been co-opted by Mahamat Kaka and appointed prime minister on 1 January – and especially after the murder on 28 February of Yaya Dillo Djérou who had helped him flee the country in October 2022 – he had nothing bad to say about the obviously manipulated electoral institutions until late in the campaign...
As under the incumbent's father Idriss Déby Itno no northern candidate was permitted for fear of sowing further division in the elite while the killing of Kaka's cousin Yaya Dillo Djérou reminded members of Kaka's extended family that they must stay in line (AC Vol 65 No 6 Kaka paves a hard road to sham poll)...
The shooting dead of opposition politician Yaya Dillo Djérou on 28 February by security forces in Ndjamena proves that Chadian elite politics are as bloody as they are internecine...
Yaya Dillo's winding path to the opposition Yaya Dillo Djérou was part of the Bideyat ruling elite and walked a tortuous route from trusted member of the inner circle to bitter opponent of President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka'...
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Kaka confirmed his own candidacy for his Coalition pour un Tchad Uni on 2 March just days after his main rival and cousin Yaya Dillo Djérou was gunned down in N'Djamena in what his allies call a targeted assassination (Dispatches 7/3/24 Kaka confirms presidential run three days after opposition leader is shot)...
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His announcement came just three days after his main rival and cousin Yaya Dillo Djérou was shot and killed in N'Djamena in what his allies call a targeted assassination...
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Social networks announced with bravado that the brother of a long-time opponent of the Déby family's rule Yaya Dillo Djérou had joined Minni Minnawi in Darfur...
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Dissidents from Déby's Garde Républicaine formed the Socle pour le Changement l'Unité et la Démocratie (SCUD) under Yaya Dillo Djerou a Zaghawa/Bideyat (like Déby) nephew of the Erdimi twins and who studied telecommunications in Canada...