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CHAD-2021/05/07 1 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION WEBINAR FRAGILITY IN CHAD AND COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGIES IN WEST AFRICA Washington, D.C. Friday, May 7, 2021 PARTICIPANTS: VANDA FELBAB-BROWN, Moderator Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors The Brookings Institution KAMISSA CAMARA Senior Visiting Expert for the Sahel United States Institute of Peace JOHN MUKUM MBAKU Nonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Growth Initiative, The Brookings Institution Willard L. Eccles Professor of Economics, Weber State University JOSEPH SIEGLE Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies National Defense University * * * * * ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 CHAD-2021/05/07 2 P R O C E E D I N G S MS. FELBAB-BROWN: Good afternoon. I am Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, and co-director of the Africa Security Initiative at Brookings, which are hosting today’s webinar on Chad and the internal and regional implications of the recent death of Chad’s president, Idriss Déby. The death came on April 20th, apparently, since Déby suffered injuries on the battlefield, as he was trying to ward off one of several militant groups battling his government. In this case, the front for change and unity in Chad failed a splinter group from another militant group battling the Chadian government, led by his former minister of defense. President Déby, himself, came to power three decades ago, through the battlefield and a military victory.
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