“The post-Déby era inevitably begins tomorrow,” Albert Pahimi Padacké told us in early April. Less than 10 days later, this sentence, which sounds like an electoral slogan, took on a very special meaning as Idriss Déby Itno (IDI) died on 18 April. Padacké has just recently been appointed prime minister by the National Transitional Committee (NTC), a body headed by Mahamat Idriss Déby, the deceased
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Chad: President Idriss Déby is killed in battle, after ruling for 30 years According to a confirmation from the national army of Chad read on national television, the newly re-elected President Idriss Déby has died of wounds he received while commanding his army in battles against rebels in the north.final act
[Exclusive] Chad: The last hours of President Idriss Déby The death of the Chadian president was announced on 20 April. We have reconstructed here the details of the Marshal’s final battle.End of an era
Chad: The six lives of President Idriss Déby Itno The death of the Chadian president was announced on Tuesday 20 April. Idriss Déby Itno had just been declared the winner of the election on 11 April, when he ran for a sixth term. From the desert expanses of the Ennedi, where he grew up, to those of the Libyan border, where he had forged an image of fearless warrior, he had weathered many storms. Until he met the rebel group known as FACT.longtime coming
Chad: Mapping the rebellion that killed Idriss Déby Killed while directing an offensive against the armed group FACT, which had entered Chad through southern Libya, the late president Idriss Déby had always known that his power was coveted by and under threat from rebel movements, many of which established rear bases in Libya or Sudan. Here we break down the groups since his rise to power.