Mahamat Idriss Déby, who succeeded his father killed in April, multiplies the signs of opening in preparation of presidential and legislative elections.
Le Monde
The main Chadian rebel groups expressed on Tuesday, November 2, “willing” to participate in the national dialogue “under certain conditions” after meetings in Doha and Paris with the committee responsible for preparing the event.
Mahamat Idriss Debly Itno, who took power in Chad as a result of the death of his father Idriss debly itno, killed in April in the fight against rebels, set up in August a special technical committee (CTS) responsible for preparing the inclusive national dialogue (DNI), which must lead to presidential and legislative elections.
Timane Erdimi, the head of the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR), an alliance of several rebel groups, who has lived in exile in Qatar for about ten years, “be willing to participate in the predialogue and to the inclusive national dialogue under certain conditions “, according to a statement of the CTS.
“They have asked for the release of prisoners of war, the general amnesty to all politico-military and the return of rebel goods seized by the government. We are working for the property seized to be returned. “,” said AFP Allamine Bourma Tréyé, CTS Communication Officer.
“Mutual respect and courtesy”
UFR fighters had launched an offensive in 2019 against the Chadian capital. From Libya via Sudan, they had been stopped in northeastern Chad by french combat aircraft bombings upon request from N’Djamena.
The CTS had already indicated Friday having met about twenty armed groups in Paris, among which representatives of the forehead for alternation and Concorde in Chad (FACT), responsible for the offensive during which the President Idriss Déby was killed.
“The meetings took place in a fraternal atmosphere borrowed mutual respect and courtesy. They were fruitful by the active and constructive participation of each of the parties,” said the CTS.
The FACT has given its conditions in a statement, including “the definitive judgment of the repression of all peaceful manifestations” and “the liberation of prisoners of war”.
Mahamat Idriss Déby has multiplied the opening signs to armed groups to get them involved in a national dialogue supposed to reconcile Chadians. In particular, it promised “concrete actions in the field of amnesty, the release of prisoners of war, restitution of goods and professional reintegration”.