Death of Yaya Dillo in Chad: return to the journey of a cousin who was too embarrassing. He was extremely disturbing as Mahamat Idriss Déby sought to consolidate contested power within his clan.
The last radical opponent of the transitional power, often accustomed to fiery diatribes and actions described as provocative, he was an influential member of the Zaghawa clan in power since the coup d'état 34 years ago. Unlike the undisputed leader of his Zaghawas clan, “Mahamat has Gorane blood through his mother is by part of the struggles to assert himself,” a Chadian researcher estimates.