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Chad working to ensure Exxon project employees keep their jobs

Chad working to ensure Exxon project employees keep their jobs

MAHAMAT RAMADANE CHAD’S government is working to ensure employees of Exxon Mobil's Doba oilfield keep their jobs if a mooted sale of the company's 40% stake to Savannah Energy goes through, Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacke said on Thursday. Workers at Doba staged a two-week strike in late June and early July, claiming Exxon had refused to guarantee they would be paid severance benefits if the concession is sold to another company and they are laid off. Tensions flared again in late August when approximately 50 workers occupied the Doba airstrip in the hope of preventing a delegation from Savannah…
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Chad’s rulers name civilian prime minister

Chad’s rulers name civilian prime minister

MAHAMAT RAMADANE CHAD's new military rulers named a civilian politician, Albert Pahimi Padacke, as prime minister of a transitional government on Monday a week after President Idriss Deby's battlefield death, but opposition leaders quickly dismissed the appointment. Padacke served as prime minister from 2016 to 2018 and was seen as an ally of Deby, who ruled Chad for 30 years. A military council seized power after Deby was killed as he visited troops fighting rebels on April 19. Opposition politicians have called the military takeover a coup, and two said on Monday the army had no right to pick a…
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