Nomads versus Settlers: Chad on the Brink of Rupture
Image: Haroun Kabadi: President of the Senate of Chad since March 7, 2025.Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno: President of the Republic of Chad since April 21, 2021, elected in May 2024 for a regular term; also National President of the MPS since January 2024.
Abdelaziz (Aziz) Mahamat Saleh: Currently Minister of State, Special Adviser to the Presidency since February 2025, and Secretary General of the MPS since the 13th Extraordinary Congress in January 2025.
Mahamat Zène Bada: Former Secretary General of the MPS (2016–2021, then January 2024–January 2025). He was granted amnesty in January 2025 and no longer holds an official position in the party, but remains an influential political figure.
By: Joe the Mutant, the Observer – Charilogone Editorial Board
If we look at Chad only through the lens of Nomads versus Settlers, I believe it would make the struggle easier to understand.
When you observe a nomad coming from the northern depths, at first glance he occupies space and thinks of his animals. Everything else must serve his livestock and his enrichment. Since 1980, they have enriched themselves easily through the coffers of the state without ever thinking of preserving that state itself. Today, they have two sources of wealth: the state and their cattle. The rest is of little concern to them.
For 45 years now, with France’s help, they have kept the riches of the Chadian state as spoils of war. They continue to live as nomads, ready to flee at the slightest incident.
Looking at the settlers, they have cemeteries, which proves that once they leave home, they return each evening. Unlike the nomads, they lean toward spirituality. Benefiting from a less harsh climate, they simplify their lives by opening themselves completely to outsiders, without suspicion, whether through Christian churches or certain animist rituals that characterize their existence.
Without a real sense of commerce, they cultivate their land, live off its fruits, and sell the surplus to nomads who venture onto their territory. These, schematically, are the two components of the Chadian population.
The pressing question today, which threatens the disintegration of our state, is this: can we still coexist?
When Ousmane Dilo, brother of Yaya Dilo, publicly announced that he would go to the aid of his Toroboro brothers, decimated by the FSR forces in Darfur (Sudan) and often accused by the Port-Sudan government led by General Al-Burhan, the Chadian authorities provided him with arms and supplies to fight. Everyone saw this as brave, just, and normal. But when they were defeated, the action was still perceived as heroic, even though Ousmane Dilo had to retreat hastily, like a rabbit, back to his starting point.
Mahamat Kaka, the second marshal, to whom Kabadi, Zène Bada, and Abdelaziz, Secretary General of the MPS, whispered one thing in his ear:
“We raised you to marshal like your late father, so that you would do more than he did by walking in his footsteps. Implicitly, if he killed, you will kill more. And all those who dared to challenge your father Déby, you must make them vassals before you. That is your mission for the four years that God has granted you.”
The similarity of the path is troubling:
Attacks by the Boudouma at Lake Chad, allowing him to become marshal with the “Sakanite” operation, as the anger of Bohoma.
Arrest of the most popular politician on false grounds: Succès Masra, similar to Gali Ngothé with his “warthog affair.”
Excessive use of Saleh Kebzabo to massively kill southerners from the two Logones and Moyen-Chari.
Diversion of oil revenues for personal purposes to better consolidate his clan-based domination.
Use of the Gorano-Zakawa clan army to suppress peaceful social and political demonstrations.
To name only these. With the few military deaths reported at La Renaissance hospital, the marshal now wants to go to the battlefield in Korbol because two of his Zakawa cousins fell there?
Mark my words, Abdelaziz and Zène Bada: once and for all, the Sara will also go to defend their brothers against your party-state. They will defend their brothers in Korbol just as Ousmane Dilo did for his cousins. Except that he went to a neighboring territory, while the Sara will swim across the Chari! The monopoly of dignity and family loyalty does not belong solely to the Arabo-Gorano-Zakawa.
At the price of blood!!!
By: Joe the Mutant, the Observer – Charilogone Editorial Board
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