JUST IN: Chad Imposes Curfew, Shuts Borders Following President's Death | READ DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
Apr 20, 2021
Chad has imposed a curfew and shut its borders after announcing the death of longtime president Idriss Deby Itno on Tuesday.
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Chad's army dissolved government and parliament after announcing the death of longtime president Idriss Deby Itno on Tuesday but vowed "free and democraticÔÇØ elections following an 18-month transition period.
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The army had earlier announced that one of Deby's sons would replace him as the head of a military council following the death of the leader who had ruled the country with an iron fist for three decades.
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Chad's newly re-elected President Idriss Deby Itno, in power for three decades, died Tuesday aged 68 of injuries while fighting rebels in the north of the Sahel country, the army said Tuesday.
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The army had on Monday announced that fighting left some 300 rebels of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad dead, while FACT claimed in a statement that Deby had been wounded - a report that official sources could not confirm.
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Deby "has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefieldÔÇØ over the weekend, army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna said in a statement read out on state television.
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The career military man who seized power in the former French colony on the back of a 1990 coup had been declared re-elected late Monday with nearly 80 percent of the vote late Monday.
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Ministers and high-ranking military brass had said Monday that Deby was in the region on Saturday and Sunday after rebels launched an offensive from rear bases in Libya on the day of the election, April 11.
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The result was never in serious doubt, with a divided opposition, boycott calls, and a campaign in which demonstrations were banned or dispersed.
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