Idriss Déby died in the front line before the factual uprising, Chadian TV announced on Tuesday, April 20. At the helm of Chad for 30 years, the president, just re-elected for a new term, was primarily a soldier. Supported by the West and especially France, despite the regime’s authoritarian operation.
Idriss Déby Itno died when he came to power, as a warlord. This son of a Zaghawa shepherd born in eastern Chad entered the Ndjamena officers’ school after completing his student studies. He received a professional pilot license in France for the transport of troops.
After becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Nordic Armed Forces, he helped the rebel Hissène Habré take power from Goukouni Oueddei in 1982, then became Colonel, Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces and trained again in France at the Joint War School. .
The crime with Hissène Habré, who then persecutes Zaghawa, drives him into exile in Sudan, where he creates the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), a rebel movement that will become his party.
Disruption of Hissène Habré
On December 1, 1990, Idriss Déby seized power in Ndjamena with the help of France. Hissène Habré fled to Senegal.
Idriss Déby, first appointed President of the Republic by his movement, was elected in 1996 in a pluralist vote. He will be re-elected five times, having had the Constitution amended in his favor.
His regime is becoming more and more authoritarian: light has never been thrown at the opponent’s disappearance Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh 2008 and supporters of Yaya Dillo accuse the government of wanting to arrest him violently before the last presidential election. Power is also undermined by internal divisions.
The pillar of the anti-jihadist struggle in the Sahel
Idriss Déby was threatened several times by rebel groups in 2005, 2006 and 2008, but retained support from the West and in particular France. The Chadian leader is really at the center of the fight against the jihadists in the Sahel.
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Appointed Marshal in August last year after one of their offensives, “IDI”, as he was nicknamed, died as a soldier in the face of the Fact Rebellion, Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad, nearly 69 years old.
Idriss Déby has been caught by the “Panama Papers” for embezzling billions of dollars, in 30 years of being able to get the country outpoverty, Chad has one of the worst human development indicators, despite oil exploitation since the early 2000s.
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