This month Chad’s President Idriss Deby will mark his 23-year rule in the landlocked West African country. In the 1990 coup that toppled the former President Hissein Habre, President Deby was welcomed by the Chadians as a national hero after he delivered a powerful populist speech promising to bring “neither gold nor silver but freedom and democracy.”
Two decades later, the much anticipated freedom and democracy is yet to materialise. The irony is that the long awaited promise of democracy has metamorphosed into a costly dictatorship that has cost thousands of lives and stifled progress. Read full article on Africa Review
