IMF representatives negotiated a US$560 million loan program with Chad in January three months before President Idriss Déby Itno was killed amid fighting with rebels and a military junta assumed power (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...

Sudan's generals also took a keen interest in the aftermath of the killing of Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno in April and the junta Conseil militaire de transition (CMT) that emerged in Ndjamena...

Having been elected in multi-party polls albeit with oppositionists disputing the results Bazoum is a more comfortable ally for Macron compared to the late Idriss Déby Itno (AC Vol 62 No 5 Election results spark riots)...

France sided with Chad's new ruler General Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka' and condemned the attack saying it was 'firmly attached to the stability and territorial integrity of Chad' (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...

Last month's coup in Mali and the killing of Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno in April complicated France's position...

But they couldn't manage a compromise either so it went to head of state level where it remained undecided not least because of the interregnum in Chad caused by the death on 19 April of President Idriss Déby Itno...

A month after Mahamat Idriss Déby took the helm in Chad in the wake of his father's death in April huge questions remain over the country's economic fortunes notably over the repayment of mammoth loans from a syndicate led by giant Swiss commodities trader Glencore (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...

His other problem is the demise of Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno...

Abakar Sabone have family connections with Déby's son General Mahamat Idriss Déby now in charge in Ndjamena...

If President Emmanuel Macron needed a reminder of his country's reputation in Africa it came with the fury on the streets of Ndjamena to his ill-phrased remarks at the funeral of President Idriss Déby Itno last month...

Last week protestors burnt French flags at Ndjamena street demonstrations against the country's new military junta led by Déby's son Mahamat Idriss Déby...