The threats Chad is facing are underscored by leaked U.S. intelligence documents, which describe an effort by Russia’s Wagner Group to recruit Chadian rebels and establish a training site for 300 fighters in the neighboring Central African Republic.
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Michelle Gavin, an Africa expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that the U.S. foreign policy needs to do a better job of recognizing that efforts to promote security and democracy are linked. Chad’s repression of its own citizens is a sign of the government’s internal weakness and raises the question of how good a security partner it can be, she said.“We have fundamentally failed to reckon with the stability of the Chadian state,” she said.
The leaked U.S. intelligence documents say the efforts to foment a rebellion in Chad are part of a broader push by Prigozhin to create a “unified ‘confederation’ of African states” across the breadth of the continent, including Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Sudan. “During the last year, Prigozhin has accelerated Vagner operations in Africa, shifting his approach from taking advantage of security vacuums to intentionally facilitating instability,” one document says.
Contacted for comment, Prigozhin replied with obscenities and said the reports about his involvement with a planned rebellion in Chad were “nonsense.”Chadian Communications Minister Aziz Mahamat Saleh did not specifically address the U.S. intelligence information but said in an interview in N’Djamena this month that the government is aware that “many young people” from Chad have joined Wagner in the Central African Republic.
A young doctor remembers hearing the crack of gunshots followed by screaming. Then dozens of wounded young men and women began streaming into the hospital in N’Djamena, he recalled. The doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution, said he saw at least 10 dead bodies in the emergency room. There were so many wounded, he said, that the hospital was “completely overwhelmed.
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