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UN backs Chad’s call for more aid as a precursor to democracy

The UN threw its weight squarely behind Chad’s appeal for tens of millions of dollars of more aid on the first day of the general assembly’s high-level week in New York despite lingering Western concerns about President Mahamat Déby’s commitment to democracy.

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