En December 1990, when Idriss Déby took power, he was then supported by France, but also by Sudan and Libya. It must be said that the ousted president, Hissène Habré, was indeed considered close to the United States and an actor in favor of the growing American influence in Africa due to the fall of the Berlin wall.
Déby in power: democracy promised, but…
Installed, Déby works until 1996 to transform the Constitution. The same year will see his official election thanks to universal pluralist suffrage, the first since independence dating from 1960, and a clear desire to open the country to democracy. His first words were: “I bring you neither gold nor silver, but freedom. »
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