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Chad at crossroads: mass opposition arrests show closing political space ahead of referendum

Despite the upcoming referendum in Chad, the opposition in the landlocked Sahelian country still faces arrest, intimidation, and threats even one year from the bloody repression of protest against military rule. Following the death of Chad’s long-time leader Idriss Déby Itno in April 2021, his son, young and at that time three-star general, Mahamat Idriss […]