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Africa North
A new turn in Africa: the 'French gendarme' goes over to the side of Russia
2024-01-25
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Viktor Vasiliev

[REGNUM] On January 24, Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby flew to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.For society in Chad itself, for the entire subregion and for France, which maintains influence in N'Djamena, the visit of the Chadian leader to Moscow is of great symbolic and strategic importance. The Western expert community and media specializing in Africa are following this visit as closely as possible.
Posted by:badanov

#3  The Zaghawa of the Debi clan that rule Chad (and their numbers are under-represented in this essay) are the same African Islamic ethnicity as the Sudanese rebels that have recently defeated the Khartoum government of the Sudan at every turn. One wonders if the end-game will be the creation of a Zaghawa homeland composed of western Darfur and eastern Chad? The Zaghawa are excellent business people, but the creation of such a polity would still would be the creation of yet another economic basket case.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131   2024-01-25 08:41  

#2  Alliance, or early surrender.
How does one pronounce gendar-me?
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-25 05:03  

#1  Vlad is forgetting that Soviet Union went bankrupt trying to maintain all these bandarlog packs third world countries?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-25 00:33  

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