President Idriss Deby of Chad announced a Cabinet reshuffle earlier this month in preparation to run for president yet again in 2021. For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Michael Shurkin joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman to discuss Deby’s three-decade reign and Chad’s outsized security role in the Sahel.

The U.K. has been vocal about the issue of human rights in China in recent weeks. But its own refusal to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in contravention of a recent opinion by the International Court of Justice, weakens its ability to lecture other states about human rights.