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Buhari isn't a rebel king. We actually do more to protect our Presidents and give it more prestige. Deby was silly to keep sticking his neck out like that.
To see a country's President bloody and dirty. it's a sad sight.
Hell they should have came up with another story as to how or what killed him. Those rebels just scored big. if they actually killed him.

Right? i was actually being sincere with my question to his comment

GeneralFarouq:
Which area are u talking about, clueless folk

what upset you about my comment? gateman? haha. let's not go there boy. let's not. before i slap you with my wallet.
I asked a question.

NewDelhi:
Okay continue your night shift gateman work. Be careful of robbers and hoodlums.. I hear they are very ruthless in that your area .

yeye conspiracies

Nope. I'm at work
which was why i asked.

NewDelhi:
Didn't you watch the video Mr Man?

And who told you that? was there an official statement to back this up? or you are simply taking one person's opnion as representation of the Nigerian military's stance.

NewDelhi:
The guy said one of the most elite special forces in the world lol.. lwkmd.

It's a pity paratrooping is such a big feat for the Nigerian army.

This was debated a while back i think. Buratia

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJPSIGcx44

Nigerian Army Parashuters In Action

I said it before. They only care about democracy when they don't have their fingers in the cake. They do in Chad, and democracy becomes an afterthought. Interest matters most

Emmanuel Macron touched down in Chad on Friday to pay his respects to one of France’s indispensable African strongman, a warrior king allegedly killed on the battlefield in a murder mystery troubling Western leaders.

President Idriss Déby Itno was killed suddenly as he visited his troops facing down a heavily armed Russian-trained rebel force that had made a blitzkrieg dash across the Sahara to capture Chad’s capital, N’djamena.

The facts around the dictator’s death are murky and conspiracy theories abound. The official Chadian version of events says Mr Déby was a martyr; the Field Marshall was shot in the chest after shouting at his men to drive him to the frontline to face down a column of terrorists.

However, analysts say it is still unclear how the central African nation’s dictator of 30-years died.

But as the French President sat in N’djamena’s national square on Friday listening to the 21 cannon salute, one thing is clear: a French foreign policy blunder.

The Chadian rebels — the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) — who swept out of Libya some two weeks ago in about 400 to 450 vehicles had fought for years as mercenaries in Libya’s Civil War under General Khalifa Haftar.

Over the last few years, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and France have backed Mr Haftar to the hilt, as they vie for influence in the oil-rich lawless nation.
hey vie for influence in the oil-rich lawless nation.
France sent special forces into Benghazi to help Mr Haftar in 2016, provided aerial support and has thrown its diplomatic weight behind the warlord. This power play may have backfired spectacularly.
“It’s a monumental screw up for France. Paris put everything on Déby. They didn’t have a plan B. Then they backed a faction in the Libya Civil War, and it has blown back on them and taken out their main ally in Africa,” said Nathaniel Powell, author of ‘France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonisation in Africa.’

France never really left Chad after it granted independence to its former colony in 1960. Instead, French troops have always tried to maintain a presence in the vast desert nation six times the size of the UK, using it as a base for operations across the Francophone region.

Paris has coddled successive Chadian autocrats and consistently turned a blind eye to rampant tribal nepotism, corruption and human rights abuses which have kept the country’s 15m people some of the poorest on earth.

Since the 1990s, Mr Déby has been France’s go-to dictator in Africa, a client autocrat with a well equipped, professional army to balance Paris’ regional security strategy on.

France’s 5,000-solider Operation Barkhane, which fights jihadis across the vast arid expanse of the Sahel running underneath the Sahara, is based out of the Chadian capital.

Mr Déby’s troops have also played a crucial role in fighting powerful jihadi groups allied to Al Qaeda and Islamic State across the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin.

France has intervened multiple times to protect Mr Déby in the past from coup attempts to rebellions. In 2019, French airstrikes stopped another column of rebels on their way to oust the dictator.

But this time, the French did not act to save Mr Déby. Upcoming French presidential election may have played on the mind.

FACT was formed in Libya in 2016 by Chadian officers opposed to Mr Déby’s rubber stamp democratic system and his use of the country’s oil money.

In February, a United Nations report said that FACT fighters were based at a major military airbase in Al Jufra, in central Libya.

The airfield was also a base for Russian mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner group and a key site where the UAE flew weapons in en masse to supply Mr Haftar’s forces.

While they worked for Mr Haftar, the FACT rebels received training from the Russians and large amounts of UAE weapons. However, there is no evidence to suggest that either power played a role in the rebel advance south.

Jalel Harchaoui, Senior Fellow at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, says much of the responsibility for Mr Déby’s death lies with his generals.

“For several or eight days, the whole world knew FACT were driving towards N’djamena. But Déby’s generals did not fully mobilise Chad’s land forces. There was an ambivalence and a lack of cohesiveness around the president. Regardless of who physically killed him, his generals share a great deal of responsibility for his death,” says Mr Harchaoui.

After Mr Déby’s death, his 37-year-old four-star general, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, has now taken control of the country at the head of a military council.

The military council claims that elections will take place after 18 months — few have any doubt who would win.

Although this power grab is in explicit contradiction of the Chadian constitution, which says that the head of the national assembly should run the country in the event of the President’s death, it is hardly surprising.

Despite massive opposition from Chadian civil society groups, the Élysée Palace has doubled down on Mahamat Déby.

“We will not let anybody put into question or threaten today or tomorrow Chad’s stability and territorial integrity,” Mr Macron said on Friday at the funeral.

Critics say the move reveals France’s double standards on democracy in its dealings with its former African colonies. When a military junta ousted Mali’s president in 2020, France demanded a "return to constitutional order".

“The whole argument the French always made throughout the last few years about why they supported Haftar was that he could stabilise the region,” said Wolfram Lacher, a Libya researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

And i never said chad was part of ecowas.. point was why can't our regional block help chad if they request it. regardless of what france says.

Because most have been brainwashed to accept whatever oyinbo says and too scared to challenge them. Talk of lacking backbone.
As a block, the AU is diplomatically important, they just gotta learn to push back a bit. you'd be surprised what you could get away with.
Then again. when you are seen as beggers by some, hard to wanna piss off your benefactors.
An entire continent cant take a position against a country like france when the subject matter is an African one. And these are supposed to be future leaders. with this kind of mentality.
Even if we all starve, so be it. But some black ppl love being on their knees and take orders from foreigners.
All good ooo. good luck to chad.

iboboyswag:
True and I believe it is time Africa as a bloc starts having this conversation.

Mind you, it is this subjugation that have kept much of francophone Africa in the bottom belt of all developmental indexes inspite of their massive wealth.

Ecowas doesn't need the blessing of the UNSC to deploy troops within West Africa for peacekeeping missions. They can seek it if they need support or if the UN is deploying troops.
Now I'm open to be corrected by people who know better. I'm simply stating my opinion
Countries have deployed troops into neighboring countriesmany times without some darn UNSC authorization
. And once again, read comments properly before jumping into it. did i ever mentioned anything about the AU deploying troops? why even bother with this guy.
AU is to support the actions ecowas would take. and if Ecowas states including chad agrees, france can't stop it. its all diplomacy. you think france would go to war with West Africa over chad? it's all about optics, and it won't be good for france. Especially if the idea of ecowas being there is to help stabilize chad. Why would france say no to that.
Did Saudi Arabia got authorization from UNSC before going into Yemen? not sure. and can't find info that they did

jpphilips:
Strong militaries in the AU dont ever commit troops in Francophone conflicts because in the end, the UNSC will ratify all military interventions & France will squash everything with her veto, do you expect Nigeria to return to Mali like we did in 2013? hell no!!

Leave the man. Chad and france aren't at war. Chad is a sovereign nation. Its their right. they don't even have to use force or be rude. play the pity game of the small guy being bullied and colonized in it's own country and you will see world opinion going against france. you can't force your presence on another country you aren't at war with and no agreement in place for what duration you will be there, if there was an agreement a d money was paid to Chad, then France have the right to not leave etc.
if anything france will bribe them with more assistance in other to stay.

IGpro1:
Guinea bissau did it and was successful, though the French had to burn down almost everything they belt.

Chad can pull through. But now isn't the right time, because bokoharam and Libyan militias will take advantage, and France I know, will support whoever will make Chad bleed.

where in the world did i mentioned Chad using military force to send france packing? and who gives a fvk about them having nuke. In 2021 you think they will use nuke against chad?
stop jumping backwards digging up old comments. We've moved on from it. see ya

jpphilips:
Bloody Chad 90th military in the world send packing nuclear capable number 7th in the world with the biggest military alliance in the world (NATO),
Did you eat pepper soup in your dream?

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-56819060.amp


wtf is this

Yo, take this igbo Biafra sh!t elsewhere. this took lots of pages on this thread not long ago. let's not revive this sh!t.
were ibos dey and no dey. una no dey tire
why do some people go back several pages and revive old arguments. jeez
And ppl, stop speculating. no one here knows why Derby was killed.
100% sure. sure of wetin.

don't care. move on. and i doubt i mentioned Twitter.
this a matter of opinion. mine won't change, so no need beating a dead horse.

iboboyswag:
French influence across francophone West Africa is not as fickle as your attempt to paint it, and the world don't live on twitter.

How i wish bh and Iswap would assemble themselves in the open like that, NAF pilots would have a great deal of fun

We think we shall wait until we are caught unaware
we love surprise attacks it seems

cutievik:
What do you guys think?

Well, after more than 30yrs, he had a good run, must be tiring to have a President who just refuse to quit. not like the lives of the ppl were better under his leadership. Good riddance

youghs:
I think the execution signifies coup

Is it too late to start grooming little Derby? these are things we suppose they do all over the continent.
I'm sure we'd find some use for him. but i bet the french are already offering him a the suppohe might need.

Imagine that. so he died, and 4 people were executed. for what reason. no justice in this world oo. how do you just execute people without being guilty of a crime. unless they are involved in his killing, this kind justice is wrong.
maybe the presidency should have invested money in armored vehicles. me no know

youghs:
I thought as much

lol. i was being sarcastic. Happy? Four star General Derby Jr is in charge. he might be crazy. let's wait and see

kaplip:
what the f***k, no
just happy for Nigeria in some way

Buhari is shocked by ethnic clashes in Chad, demands more tolerance from Africans


This gave me a chuckle. hope he's aware his own country is on fire

Nigerian troops kill 40 Boko Haram terrorists

AFRICA

Nigerian troops kill 40 Boko Haram terroristsMany other members of terror group wounded in clashes yet managed to run away

Adam Abu-bashal   |20.04.2021

ABUJA, Nigeria 

Nigerian troops eliminated at least 40 Boko Haram terrorists Monday in clashes in the country’s northeast, local media reported. 

A security source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media that the terrorists were killed during clashes that lasted more than 13 hours in the town of Dikwa in Borno state.

Several other members of the terrorist group were wounded yet managed to escape.

Vehicles belonging to the terrorists and a significant amount of ammunition was also destroyed, said the security source.

Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria but later spread its atrocities to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a military response.

More than 30,000 people have been killed and nearly 3 million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram's terrorist activities in Nigeria, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Violence committed by Boko Haram has affected some 26 million people in the Lake Chad region and displaced 2.6 million others, according to the UN Refugee Agency

Very. him be your relative? jk. no mind me i beg. but yea. he's gone

kaplip:
Just watching that IDRISS DEBY the Chadian President just died how true please

Thx

SamuelAnyawu:
It’s a tribe found in Borno and Chad too. They have vey fair people too like Arabs

which one be shuwa. oga

SamuelAnyawu:
My Shuwa colleagues are crying .

Brb make I join them cry as one of my female colleagues helping me out here in deep field Na Shuwa

That's your opinion. gooduck with that. don't care. i have mine. And I'm very well present. Enjoy ur day chief

kabe1:
Bro, you need to face political reality.

Stop assuming things, live in the present. In this present reality there is nothing Chad can do if their interest challenges French interest in Chad.

This is the reality of things.

Right? it's being treated like say na some rebel leader died lol. shoot.

Odunayaw:
In sane countries, the military will take flak for such a death. Imagine if it were Bush in the middle east

See this one. Na you elect me into office? why i go go haha
But be a brother, you go in my stead. my prayers are with you

JOSCOFELIX:
why you no go ?