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To His Excellency Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno
President of the Republic of Chad
Palais Rose, N'Djamena
Mr. President,
I am writing this from the dust-swept streets of N'Djamena, where the heat of the Sahel meets the burning desire of 18 million Chadians to simply belong to a functional state. We are a land of vast horizons, a bridge between the heart of Africa and the Sahara, yet we feel like a nation suspended in time. Our history is written in the stories of our people—nomads, farmers, and traders—who have survived empires and droughts, yet we struggle to build the one thing we need most: a country that works for its own.
We are a nation of immense, untapped power. Look at our people—the resilience of our pastoralists who navigate the harsh terrain, and the tireless energy of our youth in the markets. We are not a people who ask for miracles; we are a people who have survived them. In the corners of our country, you see the true spirit of Chad: teachers working in classrooms with no roofs, nurses serving villages with no power, and community leaders holding neighborhoods together with nothing but their word. They are the backbone of a country that the state often fails to see.
But, Mr. President, this resilience is reaching its limit. Our youth, hungry for opportunity, look at the riches under our soil—our oil, our minerals—and wonder why it hasn't translated into a single hospital that doesn't run out of medicine, or a school that doesn't require a bribe to enroll. They are tired of being told to wait. We are tired of hearing about "transition" while our daily lives remain stuck in the past. We don't need another decade of promises; we need a decade of roads, clinics, and power grids that actually connect the north to the south and the people to their future.
We want to be a nation that feeds itself, powers itself, and educates itself. We want a government that listens to the farmer in the Logone Valley as closely as it listens to the generals in the capital. Give us the security to move, the freedom to innovate, and the infrastructure to grow. Chad is not just a strategic point on a map; it is home. And it is time we started treating it like one.
With the persistent hope of a patriot,
A Concerned Chadian
Sovereign Performance Audit: Chad (June 2026)
Sector
Score
Summary
Political Stability
2.0
Tense; managed transition, but deep underlying frictions remain.
Economic Development
1.5
Oil-dependent; extreme wealth inequality and lack of diversification.
Social Infrastructure
1.0
Critical; basic services are inaccessible to the vast majority of the rural population.
National Resilience
3.0
Extremely high; the population manages to sustain itself despite state absence.
Final Verdict: 1.8 / The Silent Sahel.
Chad remains an "islands of order" state, where development is concentrated in specific urban hubs, leaving the vast majority of the population in the shadow of the formal economy. The governance challenge for 2026 is moving from "security-first" to "service-first" to prevent long-term social fragmentation.
President of the Republic of Chad
Palais Rose, N'Djamena
Mr. President,
I am writing this from the dust-swept streets of N'Djamena, where the heat of the Sahel meets the burning desire of 18 million Chadians to simply belong to a functional state. We are a land of vast horizons, a bridge between the heart of Africa and the Sahara, yet we feel like a nation suspended in time. Our history is written in the stories of our people—nomads, farmers, and traders—who have survived empires and droughts, yet we struggle to build the one thing we need most: a country that works for its own.
We are a nation of immense, untapped power. Look at our people—the resilience of our pastoralists who navigate the harsh terrain, and the tireless energy of our youth in the markets. We are not a people who ask for miracles; we are a people who have survived them. In the corners of our country, you see the true spirit of Chad: teachers working in classrooms with no roofs, nurses serving villages with no power, and community leaders holding neighborhoods together with nothing but their word. They are the backbone of a country that the state often fails to see.
But, Mr. President, this resilience is reaching its limit. Our youth, hungry for opportunity, look at the riches under our soil—our oil, our minerals—and wonder why it hasn't translated into a single hospital that doesn't run out of medicine, or a school that doesn't require a bribe to enroll. They are tired of being told to wait. We are tired of hearing about "transition" while our daily lives remain stuck in the past. We don't need another decade of promises; we need a decade of roads, clinics, and power grids that actually connect the north to the south and the people to their future.
We want to be a nation that feeds itself, powers itself, and educates itself. We want a government that listens to the farmer in the Logone Valley as closely as it listens to the generals in the capital. Give us the security to move, the freedom to innovate, and the infrastructure to grow. Chad is not just a strategic point on a map; it is home. And it is time we started treating it like one.
With the persistent hope of a patriot,
A Concerned Chadian
Sovereign Performance Audit: Chad (June 2026)
Sector
Score
Summary
Political Stability
2.0
Tense; managed transition, but deep underlying frictions remain.
Economic Development
1.5
Oil-dependent; extreme wealth inequality and lack of diversification.
Social Infrastructure
1.0
Critical; basic services are inaccessible to the vast majority of the rural population.
National Resilience
3.0
Extremely high; the population manages to sustain itself despite state absence.
Final Verdict: 1.8 / The Silent Sahel.
Chad remains an "islands of order" state, where development is concentrated in specific urban hubs, leaving the vast majority of the population in the shadow of the formal economy. The governance challenge for 2026 is moving from "security-first" to "service-first" to prevent long-term social fragmentation.
Addressee-language version: French
À Son Excellence Mahamat Idriss Déby ItnoPrésident de la République du Tchad
Palais Rose, N'Djamena
Monsieur le Président,
Je vous écris depuis les rues balayées de poussière de N'Djamena, où la chaleur du Sahel rencontre le désir ardent de 18 millions de Tchadiens d’appartenir simplement à un État fonctionnel. Nous sommes une terre aux horizons vastes, un pont entre le cœur de l’Afrique et le Sahara, et pourtant nous nous sentons comme une nation suspendue dans le temps. Notre histoire s’écrit dans les récits de notre peuple — nomades, cultivateurs et commerçants — qui ont survécu à des empires et à des sécheresses, et pourtant nous peinons à bâtir la chose dont nous avons le plus besoin : un pays qui fonctionne pour ses propres citoyens.
Nous sommes une nation d’un immense potentiel inexploité. Regardez notre peuple — la résilience de nos pasteurs qui traversent des terrains difficiles, et l’énergie infatigable de notre jeunesse dans les marchés. Nous ne sommes pas un peuple qui demande des miracles ; nous sommes un peuple qui les a traversés. Dans les coins de notre pays, vous voyez le véritable esprit du Tchad : des enseignants travaillant dans des salles de classe sans toits, des infirmières au service de villages sans électricité, et des responsables communautaires qui maintiennent des quartiers unis avec rien d’autre que leur parole. Ils sont l’épine dorsale d’un pays que l’État ne voit souvent pas.
Mais, Monsieur le Président, cette résilience atteint ses limites. Notre jeunesse, avide d’opportunités, regarde les richesses sous nos sols — notre pétrole, nos minerais — et se demande pourquoi cela ne s’est pas traduit par un seul hôpital qui ne manque pas de médicaments, ou une école qui n’exige pas de pot-de-vin pour inscrire un élève. Ils en ont assez de se faire dire d’attendre. Nous en avons assez d’entendre parler de « transition » alors que nos vies quotidiennes restent figées dans le passé. Nous n’avons pas besoin d’une autre décennie de promesses ; nous avons besoin d’une décennie de routes, de cliniques et de réseaux électriques qui relient réellement le nord au sud et le peuple à son avenir.
Nous voulons être une nation qui se nourrit elle-même, s’alimente en énergie et s’instruit. Nous voulons un gouvernement qui écoute l’agriculteur de la vallée du Logone aussi attentivement qu’il écoute les généraux de la capitale. Donnez-nous la sécurité pour nous déplacer, la liberté d’innover et les infrastructures pour croître. Le Tchad n’est pas seulement un point stratégique sur une carte ; c’est un foyer. Et il est temps que nous commencions à le traiter comme tel.
Avec l’espoir persistant d’un patriote,
Un Tchadien Concerné
Audit de Performance de la Souveraineté : Tchad (juin 2026)
Secteur
Note
Résumé
Stabilité politique
2,0
Tendue ; transition gérée, mais des frictions profondes subsistent.
Développement économique
1,5
Dépendant du pétrole ; inégalités de richesse extrêmes et absence de diversification.
Infrastructure sociale
1,0
Critique; les services de base sont inaccessibles à l'immense majorité de la population rurale.
Résilience nationale
3,0
Extrêmement élevée ; la population parvient à se maintenir malgré l'absence de l'État.
Verdict final : 1,8 / Le Sahel silencieux.
Le Tchad demeure un État « îlots d'ordre », où le développement est concentré dans des pôles urbains spécifiques, laissant l'immense majorité de la population à l'écart de l'économie formelle. Le défi de gouvernance pour 2026 est de passer d'une logique « sécurité d'abord » à une logique « services d'abord » afin de prévenir une fragmentation sociale à long terme.