by Max Baseman

Created on: May 20, 2009   Last Updated: May 22, 2009

The Republic of Chad is a country with several substantial handicaps, that if fixed, could result in the benefit to the nation. Chad's corruption severely hinders growth. Chad is subject to many geographic disabilities and faces deep political damage. In order to understand how Chad requires repair, it is essential to comprehend the amount of unscrupulous extortion and corruption that occurs.

The corruption in Chad is leaving the nation and people at at a severe disadvantage. Corruption destroys Chad's foreign relations including relations with world organizations. Corruption in the country promotes poverty and inhibits beneficial advancement. In his article, feuding and corruption drain Chad of its best chance.

Colin Freeman explains a Chadian school, where every day [students] cram in front of [the teacher], five to a desk and 100 to a classroom; eager to learn in a country where fewer than half the people are literate(1). He then states that these students ought to be the luckiest pupils because after 30 years of civil war, they are the first generation in line to benefit from Chad's new-found oil wealth; which promised to lift the country from poverty when it was tapped, under a World Bank deal, three years ago. (2).

Unfortunately, due to internal corruption, little has been done with the 225 million in oil revenues that have flowed into state coffers since 2004(3). President Deby agreed with the World Bank, that in exchange for loans to keep revenues in a trustee account earmarked primarily for development, where Seventy-two per cent was allotted to poverty-reduction and a further 10 per cent for a 'future generations' fund, for when the oil runs out in about 20 years' time(4).

However, the majority of Chad's nine million people live on less than $1 a day, an income that ranks their vast desert nation among the world's 10 poorest, corrupted, nepotistic and the sheer murkiness of Chad's government. Much of the cash is either frittered away on non-existent projects or fattening public contracts run by the president's inner clan(5).

Examples of the corrupt use of money, range from schools and water towers, costing up to 200,000, that had been commissioned and paid for in rural areas; but never built to a 2,000 secretary chair (6). The government's mishandling of the World Bank's loan has resulted in the World Bank [freezing] $124 million in loans already earmarked for Chad(7). Furthermore, President Deby is known for fear mongering, such as reports

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