African Servant of Empire Dies in Chad Fighting

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

03 May 2021

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · African Servant of Empire Dies in Chad Fighting

The death of Chad president Idris Deby in fighting with rebels last week is a loss for the US and France, the top imperial powers in Africa, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. “Idris Deby’s army has been essential to France’s neocolonial pretensions, and those of the United States, as well,” said Horne. US military “trainers” serve with the Chadian military and France maintains a permanent base in the country.

Chad

More Stories

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
COP29 and Climate Agreement Failure
22 Nov 2024
Anthony Rogers-Wright provides his analysis of the latest United Nations climate change summit, COP29, now being held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Biden Leaves Office But Risks War with Russia
20 Nov 2024
Democrats are in a collective state of panic because Donald Trump is returning to the presidency. But Joe Biden is escalating conflict in the Ukraine proxy war against Russia and endangering the…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Revolution and the Negro, CLR James, 1939
20 Nov 2024
Haiti’s Battle of Vertières reminds us that resistance is not futile, that victory will come.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
It’s not you, it’s CAPITALISM
20 Nov 2024
Malaika Jabali’s book explains our toxic relationship with capitalism and says it’s time to break up.
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Imperialism and the Destabilization of the Alliance of Sahel States
20 Nov 2024
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remain targets of the western capitalist mining firms and their state sponsors.

Related Podcasts

More Stories