A diplomatic spat between Germany and Chad has again brought attention to the delayed return to democracy in the oil-rich Central African nation—still reeling from multiple crises two years after long-term leader Idriss Deby Itno died while fighting rebels.
On April 11, Berlin ordered Chad’s ambassador to Germany, Mariam Ali Moussa, to leave the country within 48 hours in response to a similar move by the landlocked country’s transitional authorities.
In a tweet, the German foreign ministry expressed its “regret that it had to come to this,” further describing Chad’s actions as “unfounded.”
Germany’s ambassador, Jan-Christian Gordon Kricke, flew out of Chad late on April 8….