Chad
A Diplomatic Tightrope
When Chad’s longest-serving president, Idriss Deby, died in 2021, his death exposed the complex web of foreign alliances that sustained his rule, especially his close ties with France. Now his son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, is asking French troops to withdraw, signaling a new era in Chad's international relations.
Family Bonds and the Abortion Issue
“Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” by Chadian director-writer Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, is his first film with female leads. It’s a venture he takes to broach abortion, a subject that carries stigma and shame familiar to American audiences after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade.