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Marine Le Pen invited by the Chadian dictatorship

Paul Martial — 2025-04-12T05:36:18Z

France's far right Rassemblement national (RN) party has been trying to establish relations in Africa for several years now, and party leader Marine Le Pen's visit to Chad from 14-16 March 2025 is the latest avatar. The RN leader, accompanied by one of her close associates Louis Aliot, was received by Mahamat Déby, the Chadian president who has been in power for over three years thanks to a coup d'état ostensibly supported by Emmanuel Macron. Even if relative, the RN leader's interest in Africa, the source and cause of the much-hated “migratory submersion”, seems counter-intuitive to say the least.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Africa, Chad

France-Chad, the end of the affair…

Paul Martial — 2024-12-19T12:14:01Z

The series continues. After Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, it is Chad's turn to throw out the French army without warning.

- IV599 - December 2024 / France, Chad

Deceptive elections in Chad

Paul Martial — 2024-05-04T21:07:00Z

The presidential election campaign has begun in Chad. Everything is being done to ensure that Déby wins despite the worsening difficulties faced by the population.

- IV592 - May 2024 / Chad

Macron on the side of the Chadian dictatorship

Paul Martial — 2023-11-13T06:58:43Z

“Chad is the perfect illustration of the double standards of the French authorities on the question of democracy in Africa.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / France, Chad

Sahel: with or without Barkhane, a policy against the people

Paul Martial — 2022-11-20T08:50:43Z

“The new military orientation advocated will, without a doubt, continue to be exercised against the peoples in struggle.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Benin

Mahamat Idriss Déby consolidates his power in Chad

Paul Martial — 2022-10-21T20:08:28Z

“France refused to condemn Mahamat Déby's putsch, unlike Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, which experienced similar situations, on the grounds that Chad was a special case. The particularity conferred on Chad is explained by its role in the fight against jihadists.”

- IV573 - October 2022 / Chad

“The Déby clan wants to retain power, whatever the cost to the people”

Paul Martial, Zang Nézouné Mahamat — 2022-10-01T08:22:06Z

“The junta started its reign in a brutal and bloody way, it was however recognised by Emmanuel Macron, present at the funeral of Idriss Déby Itno. Demonstrations organized by political groups, human rights associations, and trade union organizations were violently repressed (eight dead and more than five hundred arrested), their leaders were arrested.”

- IV573 - October 2022 / Chad

When France endorses a coup in Chad

Paul Martial — 2022-05-02T10:30:39Z

“Once again, it is the Chadian people who will pay the price for the realpolitik imposed by France's military considerations.”

- IV568 - May 2022 / Chad

The legacy of Hissène Habré in Chad

Correspondents l'Anticapitaliste — 2021-09-03T08:58:26Z

“The Chad of the Débys remains in the same vein as Habré: assassinations, ethnicism, regionalism, nepotism, clientelism, shameless exploitation of human and natural resources for the benefit of a minority of parasites, plundering of public funds, and nauseating religious rigorism! All this with the blessing of French imperialism.”

- IV560 - September 2021 / Chad

Struggle continues against military regime

Correspondents l'Anticapitaliste — 2021-06-07T16:11:23Z

In Chad, for several weeks now, and despite a repression that has already left dozens dead and hundreds injured, demonstrations have continued to denounce the seizure of power by the Transitional Military Committee (TMC), led by General Mahamad Deby - son of former dictator Idriss Deby, killed on 20 April.

- IV557 - June 2021 / Chad