{"id":529091,"date":"2025-05-17T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=529091"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:42:15","slug":"chad-opposition-leader-succes-masra-arrested-amid-rising-political-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/chad-opposition-leader-succes-masra-arrested-amid-rising-political-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad: opposition leader Succ\u00e8s Masra arrested amid rising political tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Succ\u00e8s Masra, former transitional Prime Minister and head of the opposition party <em>Les Transformateurs<\/em>, was forcibly arrested on May 16, according to a Facebook alert issued by his vice president, Dr. Ndolembai Njessada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrest comes in the wake of a heated public dispute between Masra and Senator Abderahman Koulamallah, former foreign minister, over the interpretation of the Kinshasa Agreement. Speaking at the seventh anniversary of his party, Masra had called on President Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by Itno to \u201cchange course to fulfill the people\u2019s aspirations,\u201d while reaffirming his commitment to the 2022 Kinshasa Agreement, which facilitated his return from exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koulamallah fired back, accusing Masra of distorting the facts, asserting that the agreement provided only for amnesty and the lifting of an arrest warrant, not political concessions or guarantees of power-sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Chadian people have spoken. In a democracy, the winner implements his program. Talking about a coalition now would be a breach of democratic principles,\u201d Koulamallah said, adding pointedly:<br>\u201cDemocracy isn\u2019t about clinging to the position of Prime Minister\u2014it\u2019s about accepting defeat with dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Masra\u2019s arrest marks a sharp escalation in Chad\u2019s post-electoral tensions and raises concerns over political repression and the fragility of democratic institutions following recent elections and the country&#8217;s ongoing transition. The international community and human rights observers are likely to follow the situation closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Succ\u00e8s Masra, former transitional Prime Minister and head of the opposition party Les Transformateurs, was forcibly arrested on May 16, according to a Facebook alert issued by his vice president, Dr. Ndolembai Njessada. The arrest comes in the wake of a heated public dispute between Masra and Senator Abderahman Koulamallah, former foreign minister, over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":529092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"pays":[86],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-529091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy-news-benews","8":"pays-chad"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529235,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529091\/revisions\/529235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529091"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=529091"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=529091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}