Idriss Déby Dies at 68; Poor Herder’s Son Became Chad’s Longtime Autocrat Mr. Déby, who was aiming for a fourth decade in power, died from what the government called wounds sustained at a ...

Hours after Deby's death, Chad's military named his son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, as the country’s interim leader for what was intended to be an 18-month period.

Deby seized power in 2021 when his long-ruling father Idriss Deby was killed on the front line against rebels in the north. He initially promised a return to civilian rule within 18 months.

Chad's state election body said on Thursday interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby had won the May 6 presidential election outright with over 61% of the vote, citing provisional results, even as ...

Deby Itno, also known as Mahamat Idriss Deby, took power after his father Idriss Deby Itno was killed fighting rebels in 2021 after ruling the country for three decades.

Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno would not have imagined this ceremony two years ago, when he was in charge of presidential security and making sure, in the shadows, that nothing stood in the way of his ...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's newly elected President Mahamat Idriss Deby was sworn in to succeed his late father on Thursday, after three years as an interim leader under military rule in the ...

Chadian leader Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby meets with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Nov. 12, 2021 (Sipa photo by Isa Harsin via AP Images). Click to share on ...

The transitional president took a seventh wife in the capital of Ennedi-Est at the end of January, none other than his first cousin Amzina Daoussa Déby, daughter of his uncle Daoussa Déby Itno.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Idriss Deby Itno is a President for Chad with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2014 Speech. The year with the highest average number of ...

In Chad, interim military ruler Mahamat Déby has been declared the winner of the presidential election. General Déby took power after his father, longtime Chadian leader Idriss Déby, was killed ...

Idriss Déby Dies at 68; Poor Herder’s Son Became Chad’s Longtime Autocrat Mr. Déby, who was aiming for a fourth decade in power, died from what the government called wounds sustained at a ...