The leader of the junta in Chad, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, flew to Doha on Friday August 5, before the signing scheduled for Monday of a peace agreement with rebels, according to the official website of the Chadian presidency. His plane took off from the airport in the capital N’Djamena around 12:30 GMT, according to an AFP journalist.
Talks between the government and armed groups began in March, after several postponements, to end decades of unrest and instability in the country of 16 million people, which has experienced several coups.
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The day after the death of President Idriss Déby Itno, killed at the front against rebels in April 2021, his son, the young general Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, was proclaimed president at the head of a Transitional Military Council of 15 generals.
He immediately promised free and democratic elections within 18 months, after an “inclusive national dialogue” with all the political opposition and all the countless rebel movements preceded by peace negotiations with around fifty armed groups. After five months of negotiations in Doha, the signing of a peace agreement between the junta and armed groups is expected on Monday.
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One of the main armed groups, the Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT), at the origin of the offensive from Libya which cost the life of former leader Idriss Déby, did not not yet announced whether or not he will initial the agreement.
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