Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region. Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it was time for his country to “assert its full sovereignty”. The announcement came just hours after Koulamallah’s French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, met Chad’s President […]
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The military government chief’s victory in the presidential polls prompts Succes Masra to resign from the transitional post. Chadian Prime Minister Succes Masra says he has handed in his resignation, weeks after his defeat to military government chief Mahamat Idriss Deby in the presidential election. Masra – a staunch opponent of the military government, which
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Succes Masra returned from exile in November after signing a reconciliation agreement with Chad’s military rulers. Chad’s transitional government has appointed former opposition leader Succes Masra, who recently returned to the country following exile, as prime minister. Masra will serve through the transition to civilian rule, Mahamat Ahmad Alhabo, Chad’s new secretary-general of the presidency,
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Food aid is due to stop in January in a country taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s war. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says food aid to 1.4 million people in Chad, including newly arrived refugees fleeing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, will end in January because of a shortage
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