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The East African
Tuesday April 27 2021
A 2006 file photo of Chad President Idriss Deby inspecting a seized rebel technical in Adre. PHOTO | AFP
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In April 2020, Chad President Idriss Deby led his soldiers to fight Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest in Borno, in neighbouring Nigeria. However, this mission was not viewed as an incursion but part of a regional collaboration targeting the terrorist group that has killed more than 36,000 people in the Lake Chad Basin.
This mission and many more are now being cited to pay tribute to the invaluable role of the Chadian leader, who died this past week and was buried on Friday April 23, to the continent. The country’s military said he died from wounds sustained from the battlefront as his forces battled insurgents up north.
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Head of Chad transitional military council assumes functions of president: interim charter Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-22 06:53 FILE PHOTO: Chad President Idriss Deby watches a rally in N Djamena April 15, 2006. [Photo/Agencies]
N DJAMENA - Following the sudden death of Chadian President Idriss Deby, the head of the transitional military council (CMT) assumes the functions of president of the republic, according to a transitional charter adopted on Tuesday and published Wednesday by the CMT.
The CMT is headed by a son of the late president, Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, 37, who now serves as the head of state and the supreme leader of the armed forces, as well as the head of the administration, according to the interim charter, whose adoption abrogates the constitution.