Pro-democracy groups accuse AU of being ‘passive’ on Chad crisis

The African Union (AU) is attracting criticism for looking the other way on the situation in Chad, where a president was assassinated last year ahead of inauguration for a new term, plunging the country into a chaotic transition period.

And on Thursday, pro-democracy civil society organisations on the continent said the AU has refused to whip Chad with the same style as other errant countries in the past, a situation they argued had created impunity in N’Djamena.