Timane Erdimi News Today

Paris needs Ndjamenas cooperation more than ever after the rupture of its ties with Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, The worsening regional crisis triggered by the war in Sudan and Chads own national reconciliation process dominated the visit of President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno Kaka to Paris last month. After the crises in its relations with Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, France sees Chads current leader as its key security interlocutor in the region.

Two years ago, Mahamat Mahadi Ali, better known as “Mahadi,” the rebel leader of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, led a 600-mile incursion across

Mahamat Débys 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 after security forces, many in plain clothes, unleashed a wave of deadly violence against demonstrators in NDjamena and the southern cities of Moundou, Sahr, Koumra an...

Chads main rebel groups said Tuesday they were "willing" to participate in the national dialogue "under certain conditions" after meetings in Doha and Paris with the committee in charge of preparing the event.

Chadian President Idriss Déby died in mid-April after more than three decades in power. The army announced that the 68-year-old leader died from injuries inflicted on the battlefield during clashes with rebels in the north of the country. Subsequent to his death, a military junta led by his son, Mahamat Idriss Déby, executed a military coup d’état dissolving the country’s political institutions and constitution. Rebellions and instability are far from being without precedent in Chad. Dé...

Mahamat, 37, is the same age as the late Idriss Déby when he seized power in 1990.