65/10 | Coup zone election pits votes against tanks
The campaigning which culminated in national elections on 6 May proved livelier than expected. Yet nobody doubts that President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' will win probably with over 50% removing the need for a second round on 22 June. The aftermat
6th May 2024
65/9 | President Mahamat considers the Russian bear hug
On 4 April the Chadian government threatened to cancel the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States the law that regulates the conditions under which the 100 or so US soldiers mainly Special Forces operate in the country. Coming so soon
24th Apr 2024
65/6 | 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. The death of Yaya Dillo acting President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka's
13th Mar 2024
65/2 | What hope for the juntas' promised elections?
The promise of electoral contests to restore constitutional and nominally civilian rule will be a key issue across much of West and West-Central Africa this year and particularly in the continuing battle of wills between Sahelian military regimes and the
17th Jan 2024
64/20 | Oppositionists vie for the presidency
For now the national presidential and polling elections are still set for 20 December but many political activists suspect the government could still change the schedule. The most likely adjustment would affect the country's troubled eastern provinces o
5th Oct 2023
64/20 | Putsch or purge?
On 27 September the government informed the nation that a conspiracy to overthrow it had been foiled. The announcement came just days before the first anniversary of Captain Ibrahim Traoré's coup that removed fellow putschist Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
5th Oct 2023
64/14 | Macron makes a U-turn on autocracy
President Emmanuel Macron is leading an international effort including Rwanda and the UN – with growing United States support – to lift the pressure on President Faustin-Archange Touadéra not to seek a third term of office. Dropping objection
5th Jul 2023
63/22 | Onshore war versus offshore gains
Officials applaud operations by the Rwandan Defence Force (RDF) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) troops to clear roads and transport hubs in troubled Cabo Delgado province but the capacity of the guerrillas for a 'long war' is undiminish
3rd Nov 2022
63/22 | Massacre threatens transition plan
Interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' and his 'inclusive' new government which boasts reconciled oppositionists and reformed militia leaders is in deep crisis after security forces many in plain clothes unleashed a wave of deadly violence
2nd Nov 2022
63/11 | Sensitive dossiers
Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parly so familiar to West African capitals for the past five years as the ministers of foreign affairs and the armed forces have departed office in President Emmanuel Macron's post-re-election reshuffle. Le Drian who as
26th May 2022
