The Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union, Bankolé Adéoye, left on Friday 9 July in Ndjamena, who had arrived two days earlier in an attempt to put an end to the crisis born of the Transitional Government’s decision to reject the AU appointment. High Representative in Chad, the Senegalese Ibrahima Fall. If we are to believe a statement from the Chadian Presidency, the mission was successful even though very little information was circulating about what was said between the two parties.
The clearing operation was carried out smoothly. Bankolé Adéoye had his first discussions with Chadian Foreign Minister Cherif Mahamat Zene on Thursday, July 8, before being received by the President of the Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Idriss Déby. A meeting sanctioned by a press release from the presidency. that “it’s time for relaxation and calmer”.
The Chadian authorities are formal, declaring that “the dispute with the African Union has been resolved”, without specifying whether Ibrahima Fall is now welcome in Chad, who has been banned from entering the territory for a long time.
But a sign that the African Union Commissioner did not come just to talk about this crisis,Bankolé Adéoye also had an unnoticed meeting in the local press with the Prime Minister responsible for national reconciliation and dialogue, Acheikh IbnOumar.
Again, very few indiscretions about what has been said so far, but the African Union Commissioner would have taken the opportunity to express his “concern” about how the transition has taken place.
The African Union called on Chad to “immediately” revise the Transitional Charter to include in particular a more balanced division of power between soldiers and civilians, the impossibility of members of the Military Transitional Council (CMT) to face the next election or even a transition not exceeding 18 months. “None of this has been done almost three months after the army took power,” points out an African source.
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