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Chad, “president almost for life” killed Déby, bulwark in the war on terrorism

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Idriss, a bulwark in the war on Islamic terrorism

It was he, Idriss, raised and militarily trained in France, the president who defended his people from extremism, and who fought the increasingly aggressive Islamic terrorism present in the Sael also for Paris and the West. He knew how to use the iron fist, because he had used it for a long time in his life. Even when he came to power, also with a coup d’état launched by neighboring Sudan, in 1990, overthrowing the dictator Hissene Habrè. At that time, the war against Libya of the powerful Raiss Muammar Gaddafi raged in Chad.

Dédby had risked being overthrown by rebel groups from Chad on several occasions. In 2009, when they reached the gates of the capital, and his capitulation seemed only a matter of time, he was saved once again by the French mirages.

Of course, his government had been tainted too often by acts of corruption, especially since, thanks to the construction of a thousand-kilometer-long pipeline, it began exporting crude oil to neighboring countries in 2003. Not infrequently the ways in which the Administration of Déby managed the country had been a source of embarrassment for those European chancelleries that supported it, France in tense.

He too had succumbed to the temptations to which many other presidents have succumbed almost for life. That is to give a strong shoulder to the Constitution, which usually provides for a maximum number of presidential terms, changing it to suit their interests and potentially remain in power until 2033, in other words at the age of 80.

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But as for firmness in the fight against terrorism. Idriss perhaps had no equal in all of the Sael. He was the most active, perhaps also because the most threatened, in the war against the ferocious extremists of Boko Haram, who were increasing their presence in the country from the Lake Chad basin. But he was also a man who had stood up to the most famous brands of terror, from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to the new formations sympathetic to the Islamic State.

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