Chad: What's going on and what next?

Chad: What's going on and what next?

Author: BBC World Service March 1, 2024 Duration: 35:07

A leading critic of Chad's military leader, Mahamat Déby, has been killed in a shootout with security forces, that's according to officials Yaya Dillo's death comes after the government blamed him for a deadly attack on the country's security agency. He had denied the accusation. Several others were killed following that attack. What's going on?

Also, fresh calls for a proper investigation into the killing of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru and a letter to King Charles.

And a Cameroonian student who fled Ukraine tells us what life is like for him, two years after the conflict began.


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