Event in Chad

  • Obama Chides African Leaders Who Cling to Power

    BOTSWANA, 2015/07/29 Barack Obama has chided African leaders who refuse to give up power in his initial speech at the African Union headquarters by a US president. The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the 54-member continental bloc. "Africa's democratic evolution is as well at risk at the same time as leaders refuse to step aside at the same time as their terms end," Obama said. "No one should be president for life."
  • Chadian president Idriss Déby and Beninese president Boni Yayi,

    BENIN, 2014/03/09 Chadian president Idriss Déby and Beninese president Boni Yayi, arrived on Thursday in Impfondo in northern Congo to attend the 3rd international Forum of Indigenous Peoples of Central Africa (FIPAC). The two presidents were welcomed at Impfondo airport by their Congolese counterpart, Denis Sassou Nguesso. President Déby is the current chairman of the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC). The session under the theme, “Indigenous peoples, traditional know-how and green economy”, will see the inauguration and official handing over of FIPAC to CEEAC.