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2021-04-20 22:06:03 GMT2021-04-21 06:06:03(Beijing Time) Xinhua English KHARTOUM, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Sudan on Tuesday urged all the parties in Chad to stop fighting and work to ensure security and stability. "Sudan is following, with great concern, the developments of the on-going events in sisterly Chad and the raging conflict between government and opposition forces over power," said Sudans foreign ministry in a statement. "The government of Sudan, keen on establishment of security a...

A four-star general who is a son of Chad’s slain president Idriss Deby Itno will replace him at the head of a military council, the army announced Tuesday. ‘A military council has been set up headed by his son, General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno,’ the army’s spokesman, General Azem Bermandoa Agouna, said on state radio, shortly after the announcement that the newly re-elected president had died of wounds while fighting rebels in the north of Chad. Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno died ...

Last updated: 20/04 - 20:09 President Idriss Déby Itno, who had just been elected for a sixth term, died of his wounds while commanding his army against the FACT rebels. In Ndjamena, after the death of Idriss Déby Itno, a transitional military council led by Mahamat Déby took power. Confident and reassuring were the watchwords of President Idriss Déby Itno on 11 April in Chad, except that during this presidential election, the rebels o...

AU Should Deploy Crisis Team to Ensure Civilian Protection, Rule of Law Recently deceased Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno seen here addressing the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019   © 2019 AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File (Nairobi) – Chads transitional military council should scrupulously respect human rights and the rule of law, ensuring that civilians are protected and avoid any ...

Chad’s leader Deby killed by rebels, son announced as interim military leader Issued on: 20/04/2021 - 15:52 President Idriss Deby Itno addresses his supporters during a rally of the last Chadian elections, on April 9, 2021 in NDjamena Marco Longari AFP/Archivos 3 min Chadian President Idriss Deby has been killed in clashes with rebels, the military said on Tuesday, bringing to an end his three decades in power. Advertisi...

Idriss Deby Itno had ruled Chad with iron fist for three decades. AFP Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno died on Tuesday from wounds sustained in battle after three decades in power, the army announced. The shock news came only the day after the 68-year-old career military man was proclaimed the winner of a presidential election that had given him a sixth term in office. The army also announced a curfew and border closures after the death, as well as the dissolution of government and the parli...

Veteran Chad leader Deby dies battling rebels: army

The East African Tuesday April 20 2021 In this file photo taken on April 11, 2021 Four Star General and head of the Republican Guard in Chad, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (C), 37, son of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno is seen at a polling station in Ndjamena. Advertisement Following the death of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno earlier on Tuesday, the army has suspended the government, the Constitution and Parliament. The army has also installed Mahamat Deby, the son of the slain leader, as ...

Reuters Reuters 20 April, 2021, 1:15 pm Chads President Idriss Deby attends a working session of the G5 Sahel summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania, June 30, 2020. Ludovic Marin /Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Chad’s veteran leader Idriss Deby has won a sixth term as president, provisional election results showed on Monday, as the army said it had beaten back a column of insurgents advancing on the capital N’Djamena. Deby, 68, took 79.3% of the vote from the April 11 election after top opposition l...

Human Rights Watch transitional military council should scrupulously respect human rights and the rule of law, ensuring that civilians are protected and avoid any escalation of abuses against civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The military council should also ensure a swift transition to democratic civilian rule, upholding the right of Chadians to elect their leaders in free and fair elections. A spokesman for the Chadian army announced on national television on April 20, 2021, that Pre...