A military council led by Idriss Deby's son runs the country for 18 months

The Chadian President dies from wounds sustained on the battlefront

Idriss Déby (68 years old) died a day after winning a sixth presidential term.

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Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno, who has been in power for 30 years, died yesterday from wounds sustained on the front line in battles against the rebels in northern Chad, a day after winning a sixth presidential term, as the army announced that Mohamed Idriss Déby Itno was the son of the Chadian president and commander of the Guard. Presidential, he would command a military council charged with running the country for an 18-month transitional period.

In detail, the army spokesman, General Azm Bermando Aguna, said, in a statement read on Chad TV, that “the President of the Republic, Idriss Déby Itno, breathed his last, defending the territorial integrity and unity of the battlefield.

"We announce with great sadness to the people of Chad the news of the death of Marichel Chad on Tuesday 20 April 2021."

"He took over the heroic battle against the hordes of rebels."

He was injured during the clashes and died on his return to N'Djamena. ”

An army spokesman said, "A military council was formed under the leadership of his son, General Muhammad Idris Deby Itno," adding that "the council met immediately and announced a charter for the transfer" of power.

Mohamed Déby would appear regularly, wearing two dark glasses and wearing camouflage military uniform next to his father, and he was commanding the elite unit known for its red hats and known to the Chadians as the Presidential Guard.

In a declaration signed by the new strongman in the regime on state television, the spokesman added that the "Transitional Military Council" headed by Muhammad Idris Deby (37 years old) guarantees "national independence, territorial integrity, national unity, respect for international treaties and agreements, and guarantees a transitional period of 18 months." After that, "free, democratic and transparent elections," referring to the imposition of a curfew and the closure of the country's land and air borders. The army also announced the dissolution of Parliament and the government.

Deby, 68, a veteran soldier who seized power in a coup in 1990, was promoted to the rank of Marichal last August, and he was reelected the day before yesterday for a sixth six-year term with 79.32% of the vote, according to preliminary results issued by the National Elections Commission. .

Senior ministers and officers said that the head of state went to the front on Saturday and Sunday while his army was fighting a group of rebels from the Front of Rotation and Accord in Chad (FACT), which had launched an attack from its rear bases in Libya on the day of the presidential elections.

On Saturday, the government announced that the rebel attack in the provinces of Tibesti and Kanem was "finished."

Chadian forces confirmed that more than 300 rebels had been killed in the north of the country.

On Monday, "FACT" presented a list that included the names of the dead, missing, wounded and fugitive senior officers, in which the name of Idriss Déby was mentioned.

• Imposing a curfew and closing the land and air borders .. And the army is promising "democratic" elections after the transitional period.

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