The government recently went broke installing needless things like traffic lights in the capital - there are hadly any cars anyway, and it's incredibly infuriating to stop at a junction with no cars on either side. No one knows how it is going to be able to import grain for the coming year to feed its malnourished population. They have all the pre-requisites for revolution. The main reason people do not revolt, is simply because they lack the necessary impetus to risk everything for something they haven't even dared to imagine. There have been several strikes recently, and the union of taxi-drivers is relatively powerful there.
Racial tensions do exist, as in almost every country in Africa.
Fortunately or not, infighting among themselves prevents all-out civil war, and they are a little too poor to do that. Tamajaq is the name they call themselves, although they're used to the other label.