Africa
Chad goes to polls in votes boycotted by opposition
2 years ago(FILES) Chad's transitional president and then presidential election candidate Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno (C) casts his ballot at a polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024, during Chad's presidential election. - General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, elevated to the rank of field marshal on December 21, 2024, has gradually settled in after being propelled to power on April 20, 2021 by the military following the death of his father, Idriss Déby, absolute ruler of Chad for 30 years. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
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".
