Remembering Chad’s Idriss Deby

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Reed Brody meets Idriss Déby at his office in N'Djamena, Chad, 2004. © Private I met Chadian president Idriss Déby, who was killed this week, several times. For 30 years, the United States and France backed this authoritarian, corrupt, often brutal ruler in the name of the same regional stability that once caused them to back his more brutal predecessor, Hissène Habré. Without Déby’s support, it would have never been possible to prosecute Habré, who was convicted by a court in Senegal in 2016. Habré was responsible for killing some of Déby’s closest friends and relatives.…

Read complete article

~	History for sale: what does South Africa’s struggle heritage mean after 30 years of democracy?

~	Good for your health and the environment: why we should be eating oily fish

~	Baby Reindeer: how the Netflix TV show brings a fresh perspective to male sexual victimisation

~	Parliament passes bill declaring Rwanda safe – but can it really be called a law at all?

~	TikTok and Instagram are full of misleading information about birth control — and wellness influencers are helping drive these narratives

~	Turkey’s suppression of the Kurdish political movement continues to fuel a deadly armed conflict

~	The obstacles that could still stop flights to Rwanda from taking off

~	Gaza war: artificial intelligence is changing the speed of targeting and scale of civilian harm in unprecedented ways

~	Does ejaculating often reduce your risk of prostate cancer?

~	A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars