Tag: Mahamat Idriss Deby
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Chad junta leader pardons 110 people held over october protests
Chadian leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has pardoned 110 more people sentenced to jail terms following deadly protests against the regime last October.
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We’ll return to democratic rule in 18 months, Chad’s new leader, Mahamat Deby assures Buhari
The Chadian Transitional Military Council has reassured the global community that the country would be returned to civilian rule within 18 months. This was just as President Muhammadu Buhari assured of Nigeria’s readiness to assist the Chad Republic in its transition programme to return the country to constitutional rule within the set target period. According…
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Photo: Buhari hosts slain Chadian leader’s son, Gen Mahamat Deby In Abuja, says ‘Nigeria will help in all ways we can’
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the Chadian Transitional Leader that Nigeria will assist the Republic of Chad to stabilise, and return to constitutional order. The President stated this on Friday at State House, Abuja, while hosting Lt. Gen. Mahamat Idris Deby Itno, the President, Transitional Military Council of Chad. “We are bound together by culture…
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Slain Chad leader Deby’s son named ‘president of the republic’
Chad’s slain leader Idriss Deby’s son will take over as president in place of his father, according to a charter released on Wednesday by the presidency. It said General Mahamat Idriss Deby, 37, who on Tuesday was swiftly named transitional leader as head of a military council following his father’s death, will “occupy the functions…