Publié le 26/04/2021
President Deby in 2016
Credits: (c) Paul Kagame/Flickr
François GAULME, quoted by Neil Munshi, Victor Mallet and Katrina Manson in Financial Times

President Déby was killed while visiting troops on the frontline, according to an army spokesman.

The circumstances of the death of Déby, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, are not yet known. The 68-year-old president had won a sixth term just before being killed at the front in a fight against rebels directed towards the capital.

According to François Gaulme, associate researcher at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri):

(...) Deby was admired by French soldiers, as a sort of " Chadian Napoleon"

This [Deby's death] calls into question the entire French strategy in the Sahel.

President Macron deplores the loss of a "great soldier" and "courageous friend".

> Read the article in Financial Times [1]