Chad: African Union postpones meeting on transition process to Tuesday
Aerial view of Ndjamena.
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Initially scheduled for Monday May 10, the meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union will open tomorrow, Tuesday May 11, in Addis Ababa.
A crucial meeting for Chad because it will present the report of the delegation that investigated the transition process initiated after the death of Idriss Déby, three weeks ago, and the seizure of power by a Transitional Military Council made up of fifteen generals.
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From our special correspondent in Ndjamena
David Baché
with the technical means of
Julien Boileau
The African Union must now decide whether or not to sanction Chad for the seizure of power which took place outside the constitutional rules.
A decision to be taken on the basis, therefore, of the report of the delegation of the AU Peace and Security Council which stayed in Ndjamena.
The discussions are already shaping up to be tense.
The conclusions of the delegation will not be presented until Tuesday but, according to certain indiscretions, they will go in the direction of support for the transitional authorities and not of a suspension of Chad from the bodies of the African Union, in order to preserve the support of Chad and its army in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel and in the Lake Chad basin.
This indulgence is accompanied by conditions on the duration of the transition - eighteen months maximum - or on the organization of an inclusive national dialogue leading to a sharing of power with civilians.
Returning from Ndjamena last week, the authors of the report met with the new authorities, starting with the head of the Transitional Military Council and son of the late president, Mahamat Idriss Déby - on several occasions even - as well as the leaders of the opposition and civil society.
They necessarily scrutinized, also, the course of the day on Saturday, with a demonstration of the citizen coordination Wakit Tama, authorized under conditions, finally prohibited but tolerated then, violently repressed.
If the recommendations presented on Tuesday will be followed, the non-suspension of Chad, despite the unconstitutional nature of the CMT's seizure of power, would be contrary to the principles of the Union and would be an exception.
Some member countries are fiercely opposed to it.
► To read also: Chad: demonstrations prohibited, tolerated, and under high tension
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