The East African Monday May 03 2021 Handout photo from the Chad Presidential Palace taken on April 27, 2021 shows General Mahamat Idriss Deby, Chad's Transitional Military Council (TMC) leader. PHOTO | AFP Advertisement The military junta that took power in Chad last month after the death of veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno named a transition government on Sunday, the army spokesman said. Deby's 37-year-old son Mahamat, who took the helm of the so-called Transitional Military Council (CMT), named a government comprising 40 ministers and secretaries of state (deputy ministers) and created a new National Reconciliation and Dialogue Ministry, the spokesman said in a televised statement.