{"id":1593,"date":"2017-09-18T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T09:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2017-09-18T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T09:23:24","slug":"in-backing-chad-the-west-faces-moral-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"In Backing Chad, the West Faces Moral Hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The West sees Chad as a reliable ally in the fight against extremists in the African Sahel. But it needs to take more care. Chad is breaking prior agreements by spending much of its oil revenue on the military, while social services and good governance have suffered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>By <\/em><a class=\"u-link-black-imp\" title=\"Richard Moncrieff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/who-we-are\/people\/richard-moncrieff\"><em>Richard Moncrieff<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/chad\/chad-between-ambition-and-fragility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chad is facing a severe fiscal and social crisis<\/a>. On 7-8 September, President Idriss D\u00e9by is in Paris for an International Donor Conference to seek much-needed funding for the country\u2019s National Development Program. The government likes to portray the country\u2019s problems as due to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/chad\/backing-chad-west-faces-moral-hazards\"> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West sees Chad as a reliable ally in the fight against extremists in the African Sahel. But it needs to take more care. Chad is breaking prior agreements by spending much of its oil revenue on the military, while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1593\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[388,385,380,382,386,381,384,383,387],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-african-sahel","tag-boko-haram","tag-chad","tag-civil-war","tag-deby","tag-extremists","tag-financial-support","tag-military-spending","tag-revenue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}