Chad president killed a day after winning elections
(Photo by ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)
Kathmandu, April 21. The president of Chad, Idriss Deby has been killed while on a visit to soldiers battling rebels. He died of wounds suffered on the front line in the country’s north.
The immediate circumstances of Deby’s death is not clear. A curfew has been imposed and the country’s borders have been shut owing to the president’s death.
His death came a day after he won the presidential elections. He came into power since 1990 and had been ruling Chad for over 30 years.
Western countries have counted on Deby as an ally in the fight against Islamist militant groups, including Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin and groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State in the Sahel.
It is said that Deby’s son, Mahamat Kaka, has been named interim president and will take over the position. But experts have said that the speaker of the parliament should take over the position and not his son, according to Chadian law.
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