* Deby, 68, had travelled to the front lines at the northern border with Libya
* Former military commander had secured victory in landslide election Monday
* General today announced Deby had succumbed to injuries sustained in battle
* Insurgents had carried out spate of attacks on polling stations during election
The president of Chad has been killed while fighting rebels on the front line just hours after winning a sixth term.
Idriss Deby, who ruled over the central African nation for more than three decades, 'breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield,' an army spokesman said today.
The army said Deby had been commanding his army at the weekend as it battled against rebels who had launched a major incursion into the north of the country on election day.
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6 comments:
The fall of Man
2021
Will President Lavender and President Dementia do anything about this?
This is big news and I am surprised that hardly anyone is commenting on it.
This group and situation are new to me, but I suspect that if they are radical Islamists, either the US goes in are C.A.R., Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger are seriously affected.
Sudan will not be in the near term, but after 3 to 7 years next to a bunch of throwbacks, Sudan could be worse than it ever was.
What in the world was he doing "fighting" at the front?
Being a man. Used to be a thing not anymore, fairies is the new thang
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