25 November
Discontent is growing in Chad as the authorities fail to attend to the basic needs of people living in abject poverty and struggling to cope with huge rises in the cost of living.
According to the BBC’s Chad country profile, Chad ranks as the world’s most corrupt state. Although the country is now an oil exporter and enjoying a boom in prices, restrictions on how revenue can be spent have heightened inequalities.
‘Ordinary people do not really benefit from the oil revenue, and widespread corruption in government services creates difficult conditions in poor people’s lives,’ says Levourne Passiri, Tearfund’s Country Representative for Chad.
In recent weeks, Chad’s government has approached paralysis as a social crisis took grip following the doubling of fuel prices and a hike in the cost of living. Civil servants and teachers have gone on strike. Students have been arrested by security forces and imprisoned for taking part in demonstrations.
Chad is also beset by shortages of electricity and water, while a rise in insecurity and banditry is feared following a governmental ‘clean-up’ operation of the armed forces that resulted in soldiers being dismissed without any redundancy pay.
- Please pray for Chad: that God will bring peace and stability to this increasingly troubled country.
- Pray for Chad’s leaders: that they will hear and respond to the growing clamour for justice from ordinary people who are struggling to survive.
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