Peace and stability in Chad would accelerate harmony in the volatile Sahel region, H E Najla El Mangoush, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Libya, stress.
H E Lt Gen Mahamat Idriss Deby, the president of transitional military council and head of the State of the Republic of Chad, met yesterday with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, who is visiting Chad.
When constitutions are mutilated after death of Africa’s strongmen
Sunday April 25 2021
Summary
When the long-serving president of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, died in February 2005, his son Faure Gnassingbé was named new head of state. When president Omar Bongo of Gabon died in June 2009, his son Ali Bongo was named the following month as his successor.
In Egypt and Libya before the 2011 uprisings in the Arab world, plans were in place for Gamal Mubarak and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to succeed their fathers. The naming of Idriss Déby Jr as Chad head of state this week is the latest father-to-son power transition that appears to confirm a new trend of quasi-monarchies in Africa.
Chad is not a monarchy , rebels warn interim president
April 21, 2021 Gen Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno
The son of the late President Idriss Deby Itno of Chad has been named interim president of the central African nation by a transitional military council.
Wednesday’s announcement comes a day after 37-year-old Gen Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was named head of the 18-month council as the army announced the death of his 68-year-old father from injuries sustained while visiting troops on the front line.
A rebel force known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, known by its French acronym FACT, has advanced from the north in recent days toward the capital, N’Djamena. The group had been based in neighbouring Libya. The rebel group released a statement Tuesday vowing to take the capital and depose the younger Deby.