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By Mahamat Ramadane NDJAMENA (Reuters) -Chads army battled with rebels on Thursday near the town of Nokou, about 20 km (12 miles) from where former president Idriss Deby was fatally wounded 10 days ago, rebels and the army said. Deby was killed on April 19 as he visited troops fighting Libya-based rebels from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), which opposed his 30-year rule. A military council headed by his son took control of Chad after his death, a move which opposition politicia...

29 April 2021Politics Of Charles XII of Sweden, who was until 19 April this year the last head of state killed in battle, Voltaire said that he was half-Alexander the Great, half-Don Quixote. While in the trenches of Fredriksten, Norway, a bullet went through his head with the plopping sound of ‘a stone forcefully thrown into the mud’ (according to a witness). Death was instantaneous. Almost equally instantaneous were rumours that enemy fire might not be to blame, especially since the king�...

Fresh fighting between Chad rebels, government forces AFP 4/29/2021 AFP © Aude GENET Map of Chad locating the Tibesti and Kanem regions, where clashes have occurred between the army and rebels Government troops and rebels clashed on Thursday in a region of western Chad where president Idriss Deby Itno was killed earlier this month, a spokesman said. The fighting in the desert region of Kanem, near Chads border with Niger, pits Libya-based rebels against forces loyal to a ne...

West and Central Africa: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (20 – 26 April 2021) Format 29 MILLION SAHELIANS NEED HUMANITARIAN AID AND PROTECTION A new record high of 29 million Sahelians in six countries – Burkina Faso, northern Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger and north-east Nigeria – are now in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, five million more people than last year. On 27 April, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations expressed their concern over the rapid worsenin...

Death of Chad’s President Could Worsen Security Situation in West Africa Format The recent death of President Idriss Déby of Chad—and the forceful takeover of power by military officers led by his 37-year-old son, Mahamat Déby—could further destabilize both the Sahel and the Lake Chad region. According to the Chadian army, the 68-year-old leader died on April 20 when government forces clashed with the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) rebel group near the town of Mao, in the c...

ACLED Regional Overview – Africa (17-23 April 2021) Format Last week in Africa, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno was killed on the battlefield by rebel fighters, prompting a military takeover of the government; international forces maintained a prominent role in combatting entrenched Islamist and domestic militant insurgencies across the Sahel and central Africa; and dozens of fatalities were reported during ongoing intercommunal violence in South Sudan and Ethiopia. In Chad, President Idr...

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Channels Television   Updated April 27, 2021 Albert Pahimi Padacké, the last Prime Minister of Idriss Déby Itno, speaks during an interview in N’Djamena on April 26, 2021.   Chad’s new military junta on Monday appointed a transitional prime minister, who called for a nationwide effort to speed the return to civilian rule, suspended after the shock battlefield death of veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno. The so-called Transitional Military Council (TMC) led by Deby’s 37-year-old son Maham...

In an interview with AFP, Chads incoming interim Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacke reiterates statements by the new military junta that their transitional government should lead to a democratic transfer of power. The junta took power after the president Idriss Déby Itno was killed by rebels last week, and is headed by his son Mahamat. Chads new military junta on Monday named a transitional prime minister, appointing a distant runner-up in presidential polls a week after veteran leader Idr...

Channels Television   Updated April 26, 2021 Albert Pahimi Padacké, the last Prime Minister of Idriss Déby Itno, speaks during an interview in N’Djamena on April 26, 2021. Issouf SANOGO / AFP   Chad’s new military junta on Monday named a transitional prime minister, appointing a distant runner-up in presidential polls a week after veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno died fighting rebels. Albert Pahimi Padacke was the last premier under Deby, whose shock death triggered the creation of a so-...