It is RFI information, the rag is burning between the Transitional Authority and the AU Commission since the appointment of Senegalese Ibrahima Fall to the post of High Representative of the African Union to support the transition. A meeting that the Transitional Military Council, installed on April 20, does not want to hear about. This crisis, which has been raging since his appointment in June, has just surfaced with the announcement of a visit to N’Djamena rejected by the transitional authorities.
Ibrahima Fall had been standing around Addis Ababa for several days. His proposed date for a first contact visit had been politely dismissed by N’Djamena, who had always used a hectic schedule as an excuse. Until ten days ago when he opposed a “firm and definite no” when he had planned his arrival last Friday, June 25.
Justification: “Chad does not support the cavalier methods of the African Union presidency,” justified a senior official in that country, who explained that the government had never received a communication from the African organization. “We immediately asked our embassy in Addis Ababa to tell him that he was not welcome,” said our source. Information confirmed to the African Union.
But concerns seem deeper, for N’Djamena very clearly questions his appointment. “We do not oppose the person from the Ibrahima Case, but we do not accept the method used to appoint him,” the senior Chad official said, condemning “the methods contrary to the diplomatic practice of the Commission of the African Union. “
Main complaints according to him, she did not consult the Military Transition Council and even less its president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, when he chose the Senegalese Ibrahima case and she “did not bother to officially inform us of this appointment”. “We learned that by consulting Facebook, he choked, before deciding: Chad is not under the control of the AU.”
No African Union official has commented on the matter, but the Nigerian ambassador to Addis Ababa, head of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council for July, is expected in N’Djamena on Friday, July 2. Its goal is to try to get the Chadian power back to better feelings. Not sure it will get there, according to our source, especially since this crisis would be exacerbated by the “tense relations” between the Deby clan and AU Commission President Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat.
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