Ellen Thorburn, the Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Chad, urged the Transitional Military Council (CMT) to “keep up on its commitments” not to stand in the next elections. Mrs. Thorburn spoke on the occasion of the celebration of the accession of her country to independence. After her, it …
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Chadian police fired tear gas and used water canon to disperse hundreds of protesters who took to the streets of the capital and other towns in an anti-French protest that saw the destruction of some French-linked businesses. The protest was called by Chadian civil society coalition Wakit Tamma to denounce …
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Chadian leader Mahamat Idriss Déby has thanked Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani for agreeing to hold peace talks between government and rebel groups. President Déby, who heads Chad’s Transitional Military Council, said that a delegation from Chad was currently in Doha to meet Qatari officials to prepare for …
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