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The East African Tuesday April 20 2021 Summary 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. Advertisement 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. The army had on Monday announced that fighting left some 300 rebels of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) dead, while FACT claimed in a statement t...

And others. as westernized leader as he is and you look at his record, you look at what he's done in this rebel war, and in this civil war, horrifics of a war, and it's hard to connect the two. >> i always bring up i had dinner with president salvakir who provoked a war and his people are stavging to death. it doesn't get the attention. i try to stick it in. >> that fake newsline he used in the interview, it's clearly something he adopted from our own political debates here. and i imagine we're going to hear more of it in the days to come as this gets more attention. >> michael, thank you. >> ...

But while the decision to commence these attacks was largely straightforward, without any opposition votes on the u.n. security council, questions are now arising about whether this can remain a humanitarian mission. nbc's richard engel joins us now. good afternoon, richard. >> reporter: good to talk to you. it certainly does not feel like a humanitarian mission. this is not a food drop or a relief effort. this is air support for a rebel war and today the rebels are taking advantage of this finally and are leaving their safe havens in cities like where i am in benghazi and pushing forward and ...