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As Chad’s Problems Mount, What Role for Civil Society?
Despite Chad’s economic woes and its citizens’ frustration with elite impunity, its civil society organisations have struggled to mobilise into a coherent protest movement.
But these groups might yet play a more important role if the country undergoes more dramatic and potentially destabilising changes.
- ICG
Socio-economic problems are mounting in Chad, a country seen by foreign partners as critical to stability in the Sahel.
In the capital Ndjamena and in the provinces, popular discontent appears set to grow as the cost of living in the oil-dependent central African country continues to…