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Buhari hatches under-the-radar plan for Chad's transition to democracy

President Muhammadu Buhari met with Chad's transitional leader, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, on 14 May. © Twitter/@toluogunlesi

Nigeria wants to help foster reconciliation in Chad in order to stabilise a country whose army has contributed greatly to the fight against Boko Haram. [...]

Published on 03/09/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Nigeria
Buhari hatches under-the-radar plan for Chad's transition to democracy

Spotlight | Chad, Nigeria
Buhari and Kingibe pursue their top-secret mediation efforts in N'Djamena

Nigeria
Police boost defences with new TAG armoured vehicles to face Boko Haram

Nigeria
Buhari to bring vast team to Paris in search of economic lifelines

Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan
Baba Laddé, master spy of the three borders

Chad, Libya, Sudan
Mahamat Déby's Herculean labours to secure Chad's borders

Chad
'Kaka' and Faki's cold war paralyses African Union

Chad
Déby's nephew Bedey takes transitional military council to the skies

Nigeria
Buhari names diplomats for capitals of UN Security Council states