Paris worries at the lack of progress in the Chad talks hosted by Doha which are supposed to find an arrangement between several armed groups and the regime led by Gen Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka' son of the late ruler Idriss Déby Itno (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...

They wanted to find out what two Chadian armed opposition groups the Front pour l'Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT) led by Mahamat Mahdi the group that claims responsibility for killing Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno and the Union des Forces de Résistance (UFR) of Timan Erdimi were doing recently in Damara Touadéra's home town (AC Vol 54 No 11 Déby's enemies crowd in & Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...

Some also speculate that Russia could encourage Chadian armed groups such as FACT and UFR to launch operations from Libya and CAR to further weaken the problematic transition in Chad led by Mahamat Idriss Déby (Idriss Déby Itno's son)...

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)...