N’DJAMENA: Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno was reelected to a sixth term with 79.32 percent of April 11’s vote, provisional results showed on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), hours after the army said it had killed 300 fighters waging a rebel offensive launched on election day.
Deby, 68, has ruled Chad with iron fist for three decades and his reelection was never in serious doubt, with a divided opposition, boycott calls and a campaign in which demonstrations were banned or dispersed.
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