Vol 47 No 2 | CHADCONGO-BRAZZAVILLEWORLD BANK Changing regimes 20th January 2006 The World Bank is insisting that borrowers keep their promises on transparency The governments of Congo-Brazzaville and Chad are at odds with the International Monetary Fund, headed by Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, and the World Bank under its new...
Vol 46 No 23 | CHAD Fear changes sides 18th November 2005 The 15 November arrest in Senegal of Chad's ex-President Hissène Habré may lead to the first trial abroad of a dictator. 'Fear is finally changing sides', a lawyer...
Vol 46 No 2 | CHAD Chinese walls 21st January 2005 President Idriss Déby is on the campaign trail for a referendum on changing the constitution to give him a third term in office. Many of the gifts he...
Vol 45 No 21 | CHAD Show us the money! 22nd October 2004 Both Chadians and donors want President Déby to spend his oil revenues wisely Everyone in N'djamena is worried about where the oil revenues are going. Opposition parties, advocacy groups, even the oil companies, whose splendid isolation behind the walls of Komé...
Vol 45 No 21 | CHAD A model? 22nd October 2004 The World Bank's scheme for ensuring the oil revenue is spent on poverty alleviation is necessarily complex. Some 85 per cent of royalties and dividends go to priority...
Vol 45 No 18 | CHAD Déby's dilemma 10th September 2004 The conflict in Darfur threatens N'djamena more than Khartoum President Idriss Déby is nervous. Chadians are involved on both sides of the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and the National Islamic Front government is strengthening its links...
Vol 45 No 8 | CHAD Rebels all round 16th April 2004 President Déby looks vulnerable but the French and American governments see no credible alternative The global 'War on Terror' arrived in Chad in early March when a heavily armed column of Algeria's Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat (GSPC), turned up...
Vol 44 No 25 | CHADSUDAN The language of weapons 19th December 2003 A sick President and armed uprisings threaten attempts to share out the oil more fairly Armed opposition is on the rise again, as anti-government militias train in Sudan and politicians grow restless in N'djamena. The unrest puts at risk not only the ailing...
Vol 44 No 25 | CHADSUDAN Dead men tell tales 19th December 2003 Ibn Omer Youssef Idriss, a Sudanese businessman, was shot dead at point blank range outside Chad's Foreign Ministry on 25 September. Six weeks later, on 6 November, four...
Vol 43 No 17 | CHAD Digging a hole 30th August 2002 The World Bank appears to be struggling to create transparency but at least it's trying Digging a trench is easier than establishing accountable institutions. Yet the World Bank is supposed to be financing the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project precisely to set up these kinds...