28 September, 2021 | Chad, Menas Associates, Sahara
General Mahamat Déby — son of the late President Idriss Déby, and head of the Conseil militaire de Transition (CMT) which took over the country after his father was assassinated in April — clearly believes that Chad is threatened from almost all sides and possibly...
30 August, 2021 | Menas Associates, Sahara, Sahel
Unlike the Taliban, the Sahel’s extremist groups — notably Iyad ag Ghali’s Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the État islamique dans le Grand Sahara (EIGS) — are not a cohesive force. Nor are the Boko Haram groups in the Lake Chad basin region of Nigeria,...
26 July, 2021 | Menas Associates, Niger, Sahara, Sahel
The most immediate change we are seeing in the Sahel is a military and political shift in the centre of gravity from Mali to Niger with the latter’s new President, Mohamed Bazoum, beginning to emerge as the Sahel’s new strongman. With Chad’s Idriss Déby now dead, and...
25 May, 2021 | Chad, Menas Associates, Sahara
As Sahara Focus – April 2021 reported, actual events surrounding the 19 April death of Chad’s President Idriss Déby appear to quite different from the official version. According to sources within Chad’s security services, shooting broke out during a meeting attended...
26 April, 2021 | Chad, Menas Associates, Sahara
The death of Chad’s President Idriss Déby threatens to plunge both Chad and the whole Sahel region into even greater insecurity. The circumstances of Déby’s death remain shrouded in mystery. It was announced on state television on 20 April but he died the previous...
17 March, 2021 | Chad, Menas Associates, Sahara
As Sahara Focus – February 2021 reported, Chad is heading inexorably and suffocatingly towards presidential elections on 11 April, which would see President Idriss Déby installed for a sixth term. He continues to be supported by France despite the familiar resignation...
