HIS PRESIDENCY started with a rebellion. It also ended with one. On April 20th television stations in Chad interrupted their normal broadcasts to show a room filled with uniformed men—medals gleaming and red berets neatly pressed—where an army spokesman announced the death of Idriss Déby, who had ruled Chad for 30 years. The announcement came just hours after electoral officials provisionally declared Mr Déby the winner of a flawed presidential election held on April 11th.
During his three decades in power Mr Déby delivered neither democracy nor development to Chad. Although the country has earned billions of dollars from pumping oil, a fifth of its children die before their fifth birthday. Yet Mr Déby proved adept at winning friends in the West, forming strong alliances with France and America, which saw him as a stable ally in the fight against jihadism.
Meanwhile in northern Chad the government has faced repeated incursions by rebels based in Libya. In 2019 fighters advancing from Libya towards N'Djamena were halted only after French warplanes bombed them. This month’s rebel attack seems to have pushed far deeper into Chad, with fighting reported some 300km north of the capital. Despite this, France refrained from direct involvement, seemingly offering reconnaissance and intelligence support instead. This omission may have been crucial.
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