Chad ex-president urges junta to include rebels in dialogue AFP 4 hrs ago © PHILIPPE DESMAZES Goukouni, now 77, ruled Chad from 1980 to 1982
Two weeks after veteran Chadian leader Idriss Deby Itno was mortally wounded fighting a rebel force, one of his predecessors, ex-president Goukouni Weddeye, has called for inclusive dialogue to save Chad .
Goukouni, who ruled the turbulent Sahel country from 1980 to 1982, urged reconciliation to end our quarrels, in a process that would embrace the Libyan-based rebels who claimed Deby s life.
The rebels of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) mounted an offensive in April, threatening to advance on the capital N Djamena, before the army fought them back.
Les propositions de l ancien président Goukouni Weddeye pour sauver le Tchad
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29 April 2021Politics
Of Charles XII of Sweden, who was until 19 April this year the last head of state killed in battle, Voltaire said that he was half-Alexander the Great, half-Don Quixote. While in the trenches of Fredriksten, Norway, a bullet went through his head with the plopping sound of ‘a stone forcefully thrown into the mud’ (according to a witness). Death was instantaneous. Almost equally instantaneous were rumours that enemy fire might not be to blame, especially since the king’s death was followed by a coup d’état and a thorough reform of Sweden’s system of government. Kanem, a desert environment with temperatures averaging 40 degrees, is no Norway, but the demise there of Chad’s president Idriss Déby – reportedly from a bullet wound in the chest – bears a few resemblances to Charles’s Norwegian end. There are the rumours, the bullet wound, and the coup d’état – which is plainly what the rushed succession of Déby’s son Mahamat Idriss Déby i