AP PHOTOS: On Patrol with Police in Paris' Tough Suburbs.Political Dispute as jointly French & British Neo Colonial Exploitation,which made People leave by Sea Boats to Europe for their Survival,was caused & created by Multi-intentions'/Dual Agencies' France,assisted by Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by Non-organized Africans.Any French/British Assistance is Parochial.
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France (AP) — Both fuming and bragging, the man told the police officers that he used his car as a weapon during the street battle in a northern suburb of Paris, ramming the vehicle into a fighter from a Rival Group.
(1 of 18) Police officers stop and search a motorbike rider and his passenger who did not wear any helmets, in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. In the run-up to France's presidential elections in 2022, crime and policing are again becoming hot-button issues. Some political opponents of President Emmanuel Macron argue that France is becoming an increasingly violent country.
(2 of 18) A police car arrives at the police station in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. The police station in Sarcelles was attacked in February by youths who launched noisy fireworks and threw stones, according to authorities. No injuries were reported but the attack was one of several targeting police stations that have heightened anxiety in police ranks.
(3 of 18) Police officers patrol in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. Officers say that as well as fighting crime, their job involves a lot of social work, everything from helping parents discipline unruly children to assisting families with medical or other emergencies. Here, police were responding to a family's call about a man diagnosed as schizophrenic who had neglected to take his treatment and was said to be wandering around with a knife. Officers, some with stun guns drawn, searched through the halls and stairways of the man's tower block for him, but were unable to track him down.
(4 of 18) Police officers patrol in a car in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. In the run-up to France's presidential elections in 2022, crime and policing are again becoming hot-button issues. Some political opponents of President Emmanuel Macron argue that France is becoming an increasingly violent country.
(5 of 18) Housing projects are pictured from the police station in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. The view from the Sarcelles police station looks out over tower blocks that were once the height of modernity but which now, like public housing in many of Paris' tough neighborhoods, often looks worse for wear.
(6 of 18) A police officer works in the police station in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. In Sarcelles, police say they work hard not to stir up tensions and try to reassure people by regularly patrolling neighborhoods that are troubled by drug-dealing and other crime.
(7 of 18) A police officer works in the police station of the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. In the run-up to France's presidential elections in 2022, crime and policing are again becoming hot-button issues. Some political opponents of President Emmanuel Macron argue that France is becoming an increasingly violent country.
(8 of 18) Police officers stop and search a motorbike driver and his passenger who did not wear any helmets, in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel on Tuesday, June, 15, 2021.
(9 of 18) Police officers patrol in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. On their patrols through the northern Paris suburbs of Sarcelles, Villiers-le-Bel and their surroundings, officers make a point of regularly driving past – and sometimes stopping – at street corners and neighborhoods that they have identified as hotspots for drug dealing and other crimes. Officers say they want to make clear to inhabitants that there are no 'no-go zones' for the law.
(10 of 18) Police officers check people driving a van in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. In the run-up to France's presidential elections in 2022, crime and policing are again becoming hot-button issues. Some political opponents of President Emmanuel Macron argue that France is becoming an increasingly violent country.
(11 of 18) Police officers arrest three men suspected of setting a bushfire, in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. After being called out to help deal with a fire, night patrols stopped a vehicle carrying young men they suspected may have been involved in setting the blaze. The young men waited patiently and quietly on a roadside kerb until officers let them go.
(12 of 18) Police officer Victor, 26, left, checks documents as he patrols in Paris suburb Garges-les-Gonesse Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. Clement, right, and Victor, with tattooed arms, refused, like many officers, to give their surnames to reporters who went out on patrol with them. They said they were concerned for their safety amid an upsurge of anti-police violence, including two murders of police officials in April and May. "With everything going on, we don't give our names," Clement said. "It's also to protect our families."
(13 of 18) Police officer Clement searches a driver with no license, no insurance and an OQTF (leaving French territory obligation) in Paris suburb Garges-les-Gonesse, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. Traffic stops like this can generate mounds of paperwork. The officers' initial determination was that the man was an illegal immigrant and had been previously flagged for expulsion from France. They also suspected that he was driving without a licence or insurance. Clement, the officer who patted the man down, and his colleagues later headed back with the man to their station in Sarcelles and started to process the paperwork generated by the case.
(14 of 18) Rescue workers take care of an injured man after a violent brawl, in Paris suburb Villiers-le-Bel, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. Police who patrol the tough suburbs north of the French capital say they feel that violence is ticking upward. Fights between rival groups are a long-standing problem in the Paris region's depressed neighborhoods, and police say they're increasingly bloody.
(15 of 18) A police officer, right, secures the evacuation of an injured man after a violent brawl, in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. Police who patrol the tough suburbs north of the French capital say they feel that violence is ticking upward. Fights between rival groups are a long-standing problem in the Paris region's depressed neighborhoods, and police say they're increasingly bloody.
(16 of 18) Police officer Damien, 30, questions a witness after a violent brawl in a nearby town, in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. Police who patrol the tough suburbs north of the French capital say they feel that violence is ticking upward. Fights between rival groups are a long-standing problem in the Paris region's depressed neighborhoods, and police say they're increasingly bloody.
(17 of 18) Police major Nicolas, center, talks to a street vendor to check authorizations in the Paris suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. He is a veteran patrolman in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles and its surrounding towns that are hotspots for crime. He is among the officers who say violence is getting worse.
(18 of 18) Police officer Victor walks inside the police station of the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, Tuesday, June, 15, 2021. The police station in Sarcelles was attacked in February by youths who launched noisy fireworks and threw stones, according to authorities. No injuries were reported but the attack was one of several targeting police stations that have heightened anxiety in police ranks.
June 19, 2021
“I destroyed him,” the man said. “For certain, he’s at the hospital. He’s got a cut on his skull, he’s got a cut on his mouth.” For the veteran police major called out to deal with the aftermath of another bloody brawl, the eye-opener this time was the sheer brutality, the clear intent on both sides to gravely wound and perhaps permanently maim.
On a national level, such disorder is translating into polarized and politicized debate about violence ahead of France's presidential elections next year and local elections this month. President Emmanuel Macron’s opponents are using the perennial hot-button issues of crime and policing to attract votes.
Violent rivalries have long been part of the policing geography in the rotting high-rises of tough Paris-region neighborhoods where inequalities and hardship are often more common than good jobs and opportunities. But police say that fighting over turf or differences of race, religion and cultures wasn’t always as savage as it increasingly is now.
“It’s more and more violent,” the police major said as he worked to reconstruct this week's chain of events, from a clash in a pipe-smoking bar to a full-blown brawl between opposing groups from Pakistani and North African communities.
“In a fight that perhaps 20 years ago would have been sorted out with fists or kicks, we now see people being run over with cars,” he said. “The population is increasingly violent. It’s no longer simply fighting. They absolutely have to win, even if that means leaving someone in agony on the floor.”
From the police perspective, recent years have been difficult. Like other Western nations, France has seen large and angry protests over fatal cases of police brutality and allegations of law enforcement racism singling out Black people and other minorities.
Police are also increasingly the targets of violence. Most recently, the murders of two police officials in April and May — one in a stabbing, the other in a shooting during a drug bust — reinforced officers’ concerns that enforcing the law in France is an increasingly perilous profession.
One measure of their anxiety is that officers like Major Nicolas, the 46-year-old called out to the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel for the street fight, refuse to be identified by their full names. Officers say they’re scared of being tracked down at home. They're under orders to change into civilian clothes when they finish shifts, to avoid being readily identifiable as police officers. Nicolas said he also keeps close watch of his rear-view mirrors on his drive home so he isn’t followed.
Attacks on Paris-region police stations with noisy fireworks, stones and other projectiles have fed tensions. The station in Sarcelles, the Paris suburb where Nicolas is assigned to lead night patrols, was targeted in February.
But out on patrol with Sarcelles officers, it also is evident that their presence is appreciated or, failing that, at least tolerated by many residents. The family in neighboring Villiers-le-Bel that called for help after the brawl was clearly grateful that officers and rescue workers sped over, lights flashing, to assist injured relatives.
One man seemingly severely beaten in the fight groaned as rescue workers lifted him onto a gurney. Major Nicolas quickly determined that another injured family member had been hit by a car. Questioning witnesses, the major and his colleagues started piecing together how the conflict spiraled.
“They got calls from their cousins saying, ‘Come quick, we’ve run into trouble over there.’ Everyone rushed over there. Full-on fight,” the major said. Experience also told him that the enmity likely wouldn’t end there and that another grudge-match was probably brewing.
“They’ll surely have another go at each other,” he said.
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Macron suggests France may pull out troops from Mali
Macron suggests France may pull out troops from Mali,Political Dispute as jointly French & British Neo Colonial Exploitation,which made People leave by Sea Boats to Europe for their Survival,was caused & created by Multi-intentions'/Dual Agencies' France,assisted by Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by Non-organized Kanuri.Any French/British Assistance is Parochial.
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday suggested France will pull troops from Mali if the country’s institutional instability persists and inhibits the fight against Islamic extremists.
1 of 2) French President Emmanuel Macron with members of cabinet take part in the 22nd German-French Ministerial Council videoconference at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, Monday, May 31, 2021. (Thomas Samson / Pool photo via AP)
(2 of 2) French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a video screen during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, as part of a virtual Plenary Session of the Franco-German Council of Ministers in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 31, 2021.
May 31, 2021
Macron told a news conference that “our priority in Mali is the fight against terrorism and the presence of our forces on the ground is not enough in this fight. It also requires the strengthening of stable and legitimate institutions.”
France has more than 5,000 troops in Africa’s Sahel region. Macron's comments come a day after West African leaders suspended Mali from their regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, over what they said amounted to a coup last week.
ECOWAS called for a new civilian prime minister to be nominated immediately, a new inclusive government to be formed and the 18-month transition of power leading to February 2022 elections to be carried out, saying a monitoring mechanism will be put in place to assure this.
“Neither France nor its partners are committed to getting involved (in Mali) if the ECOWAS demands are not respected,” Macron said. Germany, which has several hundred soldiers taking part in the U.N. stabilization and European Union training missions in Mali, sees the need to continue those deployments, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in the joint news conference with Macron via videoconference.
She added, however, that there were “red lines” including the need to hold elections and for there to be no contact with Islamist forces, including by Mali’s current president. She and Macron had agreed to have a “very, very close exchange” about developments in Mali and “if there is a situation (...) in which we see red lines are crossed, then we will coordinate our actions closely.”
A power vacuum amid a 2012 coup d’etat unleashed years of chaos in Mali and allowed Islamic extremists to seize control of northern towns. Ultimately, a French-led military operation ousted the jihadis from strongholds in 2013, but they have regrouped and since expanded their reach.
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Mali’s transitional president resigns while in Detention,Political Dispute as jointly French & British Neo Colonial Exploitation,which made People leave by Sea Boats to Europe for their Survival,was caused & created by Multi-intentions'/Dual Agencies' France,assisted by Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by Non-organized Kanuri.Any French/British Assistance is Parochial.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s transitional president has resigned while he and the prime minister are in detention after being arrested by the military earlier this week. The resignation by the leader of an 18-month civilian transitional government risks plunging the troubled nation into further instability and comes as representatives of the West African regional bloc are in Mali to mediate the political crisis, officials said Wednesday.
(1 of 2) Col. Assimi Goita, who has declared himself the leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, arrives to meet with a regional delegation at the Ministry of Defense in the capital Bamako, Mali. Goita, has regained control of the West African country on Tuesday May 25, 2021, by deposing the president and prime minister of the transitional government in an unprecedented move. But Goita, who has served as vice president, is promising to still hold new elections next year.
(2 of 2) Col. Assimi Goita meets with a high-level delegation from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS, at the Ministry of Defense in Bamako, Mali. Goita, has regained control of the West African country on Tuesday May 25, 2021, by deposing the president and prime minister of the transitional government in an unprecedented move. But Goita, who has served as vice president, is promising to still hold new elections next year.
May 26, 2021
The U.N., the African Union and other international bodies, as well as the U.S., have urged Mali’s military to release the transitional leaders. Transitional President Bah N’Daw dismissed Prime Minister Moctar Ouane Wednesday before handing in his own resignation letter to transitional Vice President Col. Assimi Goita, who led the 2020 coup, according to a military official. A West African diplomat who is involved in mediations also confirmed the resignation and dismissal. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to speak to the press on the subject.
The conditions under which the two transitional leaders are being held are not known. Goita likely intends to take power himself to control the transition, the diplomat said. On Tuesday, Goita retook control of Mali, saying in a statement he had deposed the president and prime minister because they had formed a new government without consulting him. The two were arrested Monday by the military, hours after naming a new Cabinet that did not include two major former junta leaders.
International mediation with Mali’s military, led by former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan of the West African regional body known as ECOWAS, began Tuesday and stretched into Wednesday at the Kati military camp outside the capital, Bamako, where the deposed leaders have been held.
The international community has condemned the detention of the transitional leaders, with French President Emmanuel Macron describing it as a coup and warning of repercussions, including targeted sanctions.
French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Wednesday, “We were very clear with the junta: the transition must include civilians. It must be peaceful, it must be inclusive and it must be limited in time. What has happened ... constitutes for us a rupture of confidence.”
The EU has also warned that it is “ready to consider targeted measures against political and military leaders who obstruct the Malian transition.” The United States strongly condemned the detention of the civilian leaders, with the State Department saying that it would be suspending security assistance to the Malian forces.
“The United States will also consider targeted measures against political and military leaders who impede Mali’s civilian-led transition to democratic governance,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
He said the U.S. was working closely with the local transition monitoring committee and other international actors to achieve the immediate and unconditional release of the government leaders held. “A democratic, civilian-led government presents the best opportunity to achieve security and prosperity in Mali and the wider Sahel region,” the statement said.
Jonathan, who arrived Tuesday night with the West African delegation, said they came to Mali to listen to different parties, including the military, civil society groups and others. “There is cordial discussion, friendly discussion going on for the common interest of the people of Mali” Jonathan told journalists Tuesday night after meeting with members of the military and government.
Jonathan earlier acted as mediator in the political crisis last year after the junta detained former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Aug. 18, forcing him to resign. ECOWAS previously threatened the junta with sanctions if it did not install a civilian president and prime minister, and shorten the transitional period to 18 months.
When Goita released a statement Tuesday, he pledged to move forward with new elections in 2022 as previously promised. But his display of force raises fears that there could be further significant interference by the junta that overthrew the last democratically elected president.
The instability also worries the international community, as the new political unrest could further destabilize efforts to control Mali’s long-running Islamic insurgency. The U.N. now spends some $1.2 billion annually on a peacekeeping mission in Mali and France’s military has spent eight years trying to stabilize its former colony amid the ongoing threat.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for calm and the immediate release of the detained civilian leaders, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said late Tuesday. “This action has serious consequences for Mali and the region as a whole,” Dujarric said.
Goita, who led the junta calling itself the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, has served as Mali’s vice president in the transitional government formed last September. He has held that position despite initial calls from the international community for an entirely civilian-led transition.
Associated Press writers Carley Petesch in Dakar, Senegal, and Elaine Ganley in Paris contributed.
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Chad military council: No talks with Rebels who killed Deby.Political Dispute as jointly French & British Neo Colonial Exploitations,which made People leave by Sea Boats to Europe for their Survival,was caused & created by Multi-intentions'/Dual Agencies' France,assisted by Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by Non-organized Kanuri.Any French/British Assistance is Parochial.
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad's military transitional government said Sunday it would not negotiate with the Rebels blamed for killing the country's President of three decades, raising the specter that the armed fighters might press ahead with their threats to attack the capital.
(1 of 2) A Chadian man living in France holds the national flag and a placard that reads, : the people of Chad have a say'" during a protest with their national flags in Paris, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Chadian activists and supporters of the "Front for Change and Concord" in Chad staged a protest in Paris on Sunday, following the death of the President Idriss Deby Itno. They denounce the nomination of Deby's son to assume the interim presidency, which they decry as "monarchization."
(2 of 2) Chadian woman living in France holds a placard that reads, "stop the Debt dynasty, we can't take it anymore," during a protest in Paris, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Chadian activists and supporters of the "Front for Change and Concord" in Chad staged a protest in Paris on Sunday, following the death of the President Idriss Deby Itno. They denounce the nomination of Deby's son to assume the interim presidency, which they decry as "monarchization."
April 26, 2021
A spokesman for the rebel group known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad told The Associated Press that it was now joining forces with other armed groups who oppose President Idriss Deby Itno's son, Mahamat, taking control of the country following his father's killing.
In a televised statement, the military spokesman, Gen. Azem Bermandoa Agouma, said the rebels were seeking to collaborate with “several groups of jihadists and traffickers who served as mercenaries in Libya.”
“Faced with this situation that endangers Chad and the stability of the entire sub-region, this is not the time for mediation or negotiation with outlaws,” he said. The military spokesman said some of the rebels had escaped in the direction of Chad's border with Niger and called for Niger's government to help capture them.
“The defense and security forces launched after them with the support of the air force located the enemy scattered in small groups regrouping in Niger territory," far from the Chadian capital, he said.
A spokesman for the armed group, Kingabe Ogouzeimi de Tapol, told AP that the rebels had not given up, though he declined to say where the forces were Sunday, citing security reasons. “There are other armed groups that have joined us,” he said. “We welcome them and we are integrating them into our different battalions.”
The Chadian rebels, known by their French acronym FACT, were based in southern Libya and are believed to have crossed back into Chad earlier this month on election day. Deby, the country's president since 1990, was easily handed victory based on official results as several leading opposition politicians did not take part.
However, the military announced the next day that Deby had been mortally wounded while visiting the front lines of the battle against the rebels. His son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, was named head of a military council that plans an 18-month transition toward new elections.
The former colonial power, France, has been careful not to criticize the military's actions, and French President Emmanuel Macron attended Deby's funeral last week. Chad is home to a French military base where counterterrorism operations for the region are headquartered. Chad also has supplied critical troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in northern Mali.
However, political opposition groups have decried Mahmat Idriss Deby's appointment as a coup d'etat, saying the president of the National Assembly should have taken over instead. The opposition has called for demonstrations this week to call for a return to civilian rule.
Associated Press writer Edouard Takadji reported this story in N'Djamena and AP writer Kirsta Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal.
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Mali's coup leader wrests back control of the government.political Dispute was caused & created by Multi-intentions'/Dual Agencies' France,assisted by Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by Non-organized Kanuri.Any French/British Assistance is Parochial.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s former coup leader Assimi Goita took control of the West African country again Tuesday after firing the president and prime minister of the transitional government, a move France decried as a coup d'etat.
(1 of 3) Malian police gather outside the Bourse du Travail where striking workers gathered to protest the arrest of President Bah N'Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane by military personnel in Bamako, Mali, Tuesday May 25, 2021. Their detentions came just hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier. The African Union, United Nations and West African regional bloc are calling for their immediate release.
(2 of 3) Malian police gather outside the Bourse du Travail where striking workers gathered to protest the arrest of President Bah N'Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane by military personnel in Bamako, Mali, Tuesday May 25, 2021. Their detentions came just hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier. The African Union, United Nations and West African regional bloc are calling for their immediate release.
(3 of 3) Mali's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Moctar Ouane addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali's transitional President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Ouane, Monday, May 24, 2021, hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier in the West African nation, the African Union said late in the day.
May 25, 2021
While Goita pledged to go ahead with holding new elections in 2022 as previously promised, his display of force casts doubt on whether the vote will go ahead without significant interference by the junta that overthrew the last democratically elected president last August.
The move also raised concerns that the new political unrest could further destabilize efforts to control Mali's long-running Islamic insurgency. The United Nations now spends some $1.2 billion annually on a peacekeeping mission in Mali and France's military has spent eight years trying to stabilize its former colony amid the ongoing threat.
French President Emmanuel Macron described the government takeover as a “coup d'etat” and warned of repercussions. “We are prepared to take targeted sanctions on the protagonists,” he said in a tweet.
The EU also warned that it was “ready to consider targeted measures against political and military leaders who obstruct the Malian transition.” The military's announcement on the state broadcaster Tuesday came a day after President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were arrested by soldiers and brought to the military headquarters in Kati, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) outside the capital. Both men remained in detention Tuesday and there was no immediate word about their conditions.
Their arrests prompted an outcry by the international community, which put out a strongly worded statement warning Mali’s military leaders that their actions could undermine global support for the country. That joint statement made by the African Union, United Nations, the E.U., France and the U.S. among others called for the immediate release of the president and prime minister.
The West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS, which also endorsed the statement, said on Tuesday afternoon that it was sending a delegation to Bamako as the political crisis escalated. The regional body previously threatened the junta with sanctions if it did not install a civilian president and prime minister, and shorten the transitional period to 18 months.
The new government announced on Monday had left out two men who were prominent junta members: Interior Security Minister Modibo Kone and Defense Minister Sadio Camara. About an hour after the new Cabinet was named, the military rounded up the president and prime minister.
Goita, who led the junta calling itself the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, has served as Mali's vice president in the transitional government formed last September. He has held that position despite initial calls from the international community for an entirely civilian-led transition.
In announcing the removal of the civilian president and prime minister of the transitional government, the military also said that it would be relieving others from their duties including “everyone implicated in the situation.”
Still, the military insisted: “The transition is following its normal course and elections will be held as anticipated in 2022.” Following international pressure last year the junta had promised to organize that vote by next February, 18 months after the coup d’etat shook the country.
The overthrow of democratically elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita came amid mounting military casualties in the fight against Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. The extremists first took control of major towns in northern Mali after the 2012 coup. Only a 2013 military intervention led by the former colonial power France pushed extremists out of those towns. France and a U.N. force have continued to battle the extremist rebels, who operate in rural areas and regularly attack roads and cities.
Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley in Paris and Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed.
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Chad rebels threaten to depose the slain President's son,secretly executed by Multi-intentions' France,assisted by Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by Non-organized Kanuri.
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Rebels in Chad threatened to depose the son of the country's slain president,secretly executed by Multi-intentions' France,assisted by the Medieval Fulani Hegemony,worsened by the Non-organized Kanuri,after he was named interim leader of the strategic Central African Nation,raising the specter of a violent power struggle.
(1 of 3) Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, 37, the son of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, is seen during a military broadcast announcing the death of his father on state television Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed on the battlefield Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio. Onscreen writing in French reads "Security - In a moment a very important communique from the General Staff of the Military - Urgent". (Tele Tchad via AP)
2 of 3) Chad army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna, center, announces the death of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, on state television Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed on the battlefield Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio. Onscreen writing in French reads "General Azem Bermandoa Agouna - Spokesman of the Transitional Military Council. Declaration of the Transitional Military Council. Security - In a moment a very important communique from the General Staff of the Military - Urgent". (Tele Tchad via AP)
(3 of 3) Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno arrives for the inauguration of the new Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the eagle square in Abuja, Nigeria. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed on the battlefield Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio.
April 21, 2021
It was not certain how close the rebel column was to N'Djamena, the capital city of 1 million people, or whether the military would remain loyal to Mahamat Idriss Deby following his father's sudden death after three decades in power.
The rebel group that the military blamed for President Idriss Deby Itno's killing said late Tuesday that its forces were “heading toward N’Djamena at this very moment.” “Chad is not a monarchy,” said a statement from the group known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad. “There can be no dynastic devolution of power in our country.”
The group's claim of advancing on the capital could not be independently verified, but it immediately created panic in N’Djamena, which another rebel group attacked back in 2008 before being repelled by government forces.
The ruling Transitional Military Council warned that the fight was not yet over for control of Chad. “The security situation remains highly serious given the persistence and magnitude of the terrorist threat,” the council's vice president, Djimadoum Tiraina, said, adding that the military must now “prevent the country from sinking into chaos and anarchy.”
Yet even as fears mounted that the rebels could reach N'Djamena, plans moved ahead for a state funeral Friday for Deby, a key ally of former colonizer France. French President Emmanuel Macron is among the heads of state expected to attend, French officials confirmed.
During Deby's rule, France established its regional military base in Chad to combat extremist violence in Africa. Deby also contributed invaluable troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in northern Mali that has sought to stabilize the country after France's 2013 military intervention to dislodge Islamic extremists from power in the north.
Human rights groups say those contributions, though, helped to shield Deby from international criticism as his government became increasingly autocratic. “For years, international players have propped up Deby’s government for its support for counterterrorism operations in the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin and involvement in other regional initiatives while largely turning a blind eye to his legacy of repression and violations of social and economic rights at home,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement Wednesday.
Earlier this month, Deby was elected to a sixth term after facing minimal opposition because several challengers chose to boycott, fearing the vote would be rigged. In a bit to thwart opposition activists, the internet in Chad was disrupted several times before and during the April 11 voting day.
Authorities now believe the rebels blamed for killing Deby entered Chad that same day from southern Libya. Deby, a former army commander-in-chief, came to power in 1990 when his rebel forces overthrew then-President Hissene Habre. Over the years his government survived a number of armed rebellions until his death this week. An army spokesman said Tuesday that Deby was killed while visiting the front lines of the battle against the latest rebel group challenging his rule.
The rebels now aiming for the capital are led by Mahamat Mahadi Ali, a longtime Deby opponent who formed the shadowy group known by its French acronym, FACT, in 2016 after leaving another rebel group, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development.
Until earlier this month, FACT forces had been based in southern Libya, where they claimed neutrality in the Libyan conflict. However, a recent U.N. experts’ report found that FACT forces in southern Libya were guarding Libyan military bases under the command of Field Marshall Khalifa Hifter.
The circumstances of Deby’s death could not be independently confirmed due to the remote location of the fighting. Some observers initially feared a coup had taken place since the military immediately handed power to his son for an 18-month transitional period instead of following constitutional protocol.
His son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, 37, is best known as a top commander of the Chadian forces aiding a U.N. peacekeeping mission in northern Mali. Already some in N'Djamena question whether 18 months in power will be enough for the younger Deby.
“There is a great deal of uncertainty around how events in Chad will unfold: Whether the army will stay loyal to Deby’s son and continue the effort to repel the advancing rebels,” said Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow with the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council.
Chadians fed up after 30 years of Deby’s rule could also align with demands for a leadership change, he said. “Either scenario presents a high risk of civilian casualties and a likelihood that fleeing civilians or soldiers could export Chad’s instability to neighboring states,” Hudson said.
Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Sam Magdy in Cairo and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.
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Until a Proper National Ethnic Conference under the aegis of UN as to formulate the best co-existing Constitutions and to work out general ethnic agreement on its framework on how vast African minerals and Agricultural products with its abundant manpower could be harnessed and distributed for equitable development and Peace. African Election shall be used as a point of ethnic challenge, source of pouring out bottled Anger/mistrusted Aggravation or Political Ethnic Contest for State Power Control as any ethnic Group that has Political Power’s advantage, always use it for its ethnic Political Power’s advantage.
Ironically, there is sources which factually revealed that the Incumbent President usually won the election on basis of all countered votes with verifiable National ID, while Election must be won its election on strength of all votes cast by all Voters with unverifiable National ID and that is why most African Countries could not be able to have credible National ID which is pancreas for peaceful credible Election as to safeguard its Citizen from violent crime and to promote Development with better welfare for its citizens.French Colonies,usually favored its interest,while National interest persil.
Also, all developed with some better developing Nations have credible verifiable national ID cards in place as it augur easy & peaceful Elections and ease better developmental benefits for all its citizens but why it is allowed in Africa and this, have caused Africa a lot destruction and lost, when UN with West can insist that World/IMF can only recognize or do official business with any African Country that have credible National Identity Cards in operation, but they are silent on this and this wicked collaboration that ruin Africa and create huge emigration problem for West and other developed Nations.Africans are waiting for the world to assist them in projects that create peace and development.
A power vacuum amid a 2012 coup d’etat unleashed years of chaos in Mali and allowed Islamic extremists to seize control of northern towns. Ultimately, a French-led military operation ousted the jihadis from strongholds in 2013, but they have regrouped and since expanded their reach.
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