Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno
24 Nov
Chad goes to the polls Sunday in legislative and local elections which the government of President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno presents as a key step towards a democratic transition but which opposition parties dismiss as a "masquerade".
23 May 2024
General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, who has led Chad's junta for the last three years, is to be sworn in Thursday after an election victory hotly contested by opposition parties in the north-central African nation.
10 May 2024
Chad's junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week's presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released Thursday, extending his family's decades-long grip on power.
6 May 2024
A man was shot dead Monday after voting in Chad's presidential election by an attacker who did not have an electoral card and had been barred from voting, electoral officials told AFP.
6 May 2024
Chadians voted Monday in an election aimed at ending three years of military rule but dismissed by opponents of junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno as a fix following violent repression.
2 Mar 2024
Chad junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said Saturday he would contest a May 6 presidential election, just three days after his chief rival was killed in murky circumstances.
29 Feb 2024
Road blocks and heavy security were in place around an opposition party's HQ in Chad's capital on Thursday, a day after gunfire erupted nearby following a deadly attack on the security agency.
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