The Embassy of Chad in Berlin

Youssouf Abassalah

H.E. Amb. Youssouf Abassalah , born on April 1 , 1964 in Zouar, is a Chadian diplomat and politician . He completed his higher education at the University of Kiev in Ukraine , where he speaks the language fluently. He has held various ministerial positions.

In particular, he was:
Minister of Oil from 2002 to 2004 
Minister of Mines from 2004 to 2006 
Minister of Commerce from 2006 to 2008 
Minister of Trade and Industry from 2010 to 2012 
Ambassador of Chad to Russia  from 2012 to 2016 
Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, responsible for human rights from 2016 to 2017;
Minister of Tourism Development, Culture and Crafts;
Minister of Youth, Sports and Leisure from 2017 to 2018;
Minister of Mines, Industrial and Commercial Development and Private Sector Promotion from 2018 to 2019.

In May 2021, Mr. Abassalah was appointed Secretary General of the Prime Minister's Office. He has held this position since the advent of the transition.

In January 2025, Mr. Abassalah was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Chad to the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with Chad in 1960, the second European country to do so, after France. Apart from short interruptions, there has been a German Embassy in N’Djamena since 1963. Chad, for its part, opened an embassy in Germany in 2008.

Germany is well regarded in Chad on account of the close relations between the two countries over the past decades, and thanks to its longstanding and substantial development cooperation. Bilateral development cooperation was terminated at the end of 2012, but humanitarian and transitional aid, multilateral development cooperation and projects aimed at conflict prevention and human rights protection are continuing, as are cultural, academic and scientific cooperation.

Besides Germany, France is the only other European Union country to maintain an embassy in Chad. The European Union has its own delegation there which besides acting as a development cooperation partner, has also assumed political functions since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force in late 2009.