In assessing Chad’s upcoming elections, the junta’s actions should speak louder than their words.    

The United States should resist a “business as usual” approach to Chad.  

Outright seizure of the Russian Central Bank’s hundreds of billions in frozen assets is off the table for now, but it is still possible to obtain large sums from the interest on these assets.

The disregard paid to Sudan’s brutal conflict is an indictment on the international community.

On April 11, Chadians went cast their votes to elect a president. Not that the outcome was ever in doubt: incumbent president Idriss Deby, born in 1952, said publicly that he knew in advance that he would win "as I have done for the last thirty years."