The Chadian government revealed on Thursday that approximately 50 people had died during violent clashes between the police and protesters who had gathered in the city of Entensina and other locations on the day the army had promised it would hand over power to elected civilians. This was followed by the extension of the transitional period by an additional two years.
The protests that prevailed in the youth element in it witnessed the acts of violence and the burning of commercial and governmental property, and the bodies of demonstrators and security men scattered in a number of areas and neighborhoods of the capital, which created a state of panic.
A night curfew was declared in some cities by the authorities in an effort to control the situation.
Joblessness and a desire to change
Al-Safi Adam, editor-in-chief of the online publication “Press 235,” told Sky News Arabia that the large number of young people taking part in the current protests is a result of their anger at the high unemployment rates and want to effect change.
Adam can not completely rule out the possibility that the protests also erupted against the backdrop of the country’s growing opposition to the French presence there.
Adam pointed to the possibility of a relationship between the recent protests and those that erupted in May in the city of Abshi, adjacent to the eastern border with Sudan, in refusal to establish a French base there.
A number of countries in Central, West, and East Africa are experiencing fierce international competition as a result of Russia’s expanding influence and the reconfiguration of global and regional alliances.
distinct protests
In the same context, Abu Ubaidah Awad, an expert on West and Central African politics, believed that the reasons for and character of the popular migration in Chad were distinct from the conflicts that predominated in the area over the previous forty years.
The arrival of the youth component into the political equation is one of the most salient elements of that change, he told the “Sky News Arabia” website.
Awad anticipated that President Deby would be able to stop the current wave of protests because it is thought to be a product of the same age.
A national unity cabinet led by 75-year-old journalist and former foe of the late Idris Deby, Saleh Kabzabo, was formed after the Chadian government reached an agreement with political parties and armed formations at the end of September.
Two weeks after the start of a national reconciliation discussion, Chad entered a moment of transition following Deby’s two-year murder, which infuriated many opponents, particularly political parties and youth organisations that chose not to take part in the dialogue.
After Deby was assassinated, the Chadian army appointed General Mohamed Deby, his son, to lead a transitional military council that ruled the nation for 28 months before being extended this week for an additional two years.
particularly young. The password in Chad’s sudden protests
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