It is RFI information, the rag is burning between the transitional power and the AU Commission since the appointment of the Senegalese Ibrahima Fall to the post of high representative of the African Union ...

Chad: tension between the transitional power and the African Union Commission

An AU building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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An appointment that the Transitional Military Council, installed on April 20, does not want to hear about.

This crisis, which has been simmering since his appointment in June, has just come to light with the announcement of a visit to N'Djamena rejected by the transitional authorities.

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Ibrahima Fall had been standing around in Addis Ababa for several days. His proposed dates for a first contact visit had been courteously dismissed by N'Djamena, who had always used a busy schedule as an excuse. Until ten days ago when he was opposed to a "

firm and definitive no

" when he had scheduled his arrival for last Friday, June 25.

Reason given: "

Chad does not support the cavalier methods of the presidency of the African Union

", justified a senior official of this country, who explains that the government has never received a notification to this effect from the African organization. "

We immediately asked our embassy in Addis Ababa to tell him that he was not welcome,

" said our source. Information confirmed to the African Union.

But the unease seems deeper, because N'Djamena very clearly questions his appointment. "

We are not against the person of Ibrahima Fall, but we do not accept the method used to designate him

", qualifies the senior Chadian official, denouncing "

the methods contrary to the diplomatic practices of the African Union Commission upon designation

. "

Main criticisms according to him, she did not consult the Transitional Military Council and even less

its president, Mahamat Idriss Deby

, when he chose the Senegalese Ibrahima Fall and she did not "

bother us. officially notify of this appointment

”. “

We learned it by consulting Facebook

, he choked, before deciding:

Chad is not under the supervision of the AU

. "

No African Union official has wanted to react for the moment, but the Nigerian ambassador in Addis Ababa, head of the African Union Peace and Security Council for July, is expected in N'Djamena this Friday. July 2nd.

Its objective is to try to bring the Chadian power back to better feelings.

Not sure that it gets there according to our source, especially since this crisis would be exacerbated by "

the tense relations

" between the Deby clan and the president of the AU Commission, the Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat.

Chad: tension between the transitional power and the African Union Commission

Chad: tension between the transitional power and the African Union Commission

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