Chadian Prime Minister Salih Kebzabo announced that the protests in several cities in the country resulted in the killing of about 50 people, and also announced the "suspension of all activities" of the main opposition parties and the imposition of a curfew.
Today, Thursday, Kebzabo said that about 50 people were killed, especially in N'Djamena, Moundou and Komra, and more than 300 were wounded, adding that the 12-hour curfew begins every day from six in the evening and will continue until "the complete restoration of security in N'Djamena, Moundou, Doba and Komra."
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that clashes erupted on Thursday between the security forces and hundreds of demonstrators who took to the streets in the capital and other cities, despite the authorities' ban on protests, and the authority in Chad accused the opponents of organizing a popular and armed disobedience with the support of external forces.
Kebzabo warned that the government "will impose order in the entire country, and will no longer tolerate any slippage, whoever committed it," as he put it.
Clashes erupted after the two-year extension of Chad's "transitional period" that was due to end Thursday on October 20, but at the end of September Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno was kept as president until "free and democratic" elections expected at the end of a transitional period. seconds, during which Debbie will be able to run.
The comprehensive national dialogue in Chad, which concluded last Saturday, approved, after 6-week consultations, a road map for a transitional phase, with the head of the military council, Mohamed Idriss Deby, as president of the country for two years.
The road map includes several items, most notably the extension of Deby's rule, his candidacy in the upcoming elections, the expansion of the Legislative Council, and the allocation of 45 seats in it to the armed movements that signed the Doha Peace Agreement in Chad.