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After years of promises and subsequent delays, Chadian President Idriss Deby allowed a presidential election in 1996, the first multi-party election in the country since 1969. Although Deby's victory was fraught with accusations of fraud and threatened by boycotts, the election was deemed free and fair by international observers and so marked an important step in Chad's movement to democracy.

Legislative assembly elections followed in early 1997, and so Deby's 1990 pledge for elections, though a long time coming, was kept. In 1990, Deby overthrew the pro-Western government of Hissene Habre in a coup backed by Libya and condoned by France, which had troops stationed in the capital of N'Djamena. Throughout much of the 1980s, Deby had served as Habre's chief of staff and military adviser, but he fled for Sudan in 1989 after Habre accused him of plotting a coup. With Habre's removal, Deby hoped to end an eight-year reign of terror that saw 200...

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