Mahamat Idris Déby Itno ‘Kaka’

Kaboré – who met with President Emmanuel Macron President Bazoum and interim Chadian leader Mahamat Déby on the margins of the Libya conference in Paris on 12 November – was comfortably re-elected last year...

For Chad's new leader Mahamat Déby it is critical that these dissidents don't quit the RSF in favour of opposition armed groups in Libya or in Darfur...

They are likely to do more on Islamic State West African Province and Boko Haram also giving air support to UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic and more problematically to Chad's junta under Mahamat Déby Itno...

France and the African Union changed their stance again condemning Mahamat Déby's succession plan and the military's violent suppression of the protests...

Awkward allianceThe French government's relations with Mahamat Déby will be dominated by its view of Chad's military role in the region...

It will be encouraged by the wave of anti-French sentiment in the region now boosted by Paris's questionable support for Mahamat Déby's succession...