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N’DJAMENA: Chad’s ruling military junta on Wednesday accused a rebel leader of seeking the help of Russian mercenaries to derail a reconciliation process and topple those in power. Timan Erdimi, who heads the powerful Union of Resistance Forces (UFR), solicited the help of paramilitaries from Russian private military contractor Wagner, according to the junta. The junta said
The government is running out of cash – paying the Russians is proving tricky, EU and French aid has stopped, and the IMF and World Bank are sceptical, Amid suspicions that Russia is trying to engineer an alliance between its friends in Bangui and leaders of the military junta in Sudan, the problems in President Faustin Archange Touadéra s government are converging. The resignation of Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra on 2 February comes at a bad time and presages further crises.
An "inclusive national dialogue" that the putschists had declared on New Year s Eve would start on February 15 "is postponed until May 10," the presidency said on Facebook, without giving details
Chad's junta announced Thursday that a national forum designed to chart the country's future after it seized power last year would be postponed by nearly three months.