Chad have been readmitted to international football after FIFA ended a suspension, originally handed out for governmental interference in football, that had lasted six months. Football’s world governing body banned Chad after the country’s minister of youth and sports dissolved the FA in March. The following reasons were given for the end of the ban: The following…
The Nigerian Navy has disowned comments by its representative at a public hearing on National Security and Intelligence by the House of Representatives. Commodore Jamila Malafa, who represented the Nigerian Navy at the event, alleged that Chadian soldiers were selling firearms for as low as twenty dollars, which he said was putting Nigeria’s security at risk. However;…
opposition politicians in Chad have rejected the interim military government headed by the son of late President Idriss Déby. Thirty-seven-years-old General Mahamat Idriss Déby, also known as Mahamat Kaka, was named as Head of State, following the death of his father in the battlefield against rebel forces in the north of the country. However; Chad’s opposition, which…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over “the sudden and tragic death of President Idriss Deby of Chad on the front line, fighting against rebel soldiers.” Reacting to the incident on Tuesday, President Buhari said: “I’m deeply shocked and devastated by the sudden death of Idriss Deby on the battle front to defend the sovereignty of his…
37-year-old Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has been installed as the new Head of State of Chad. Deby Itno, who is a four-star general, was announced as a replacement for his father, IDRISS DEBY, who died at the age of sixty-eight while visiting Chadian troops in the battlefield against rebels. The young general is to preside over a…
68-years-old President Idriss Deby of Chad has won his sixth term of office, which extends his tenure beyond thirty years. The former military officer, who first came into power in 1990, secured another term with seventy-nine percent of the ballots cast in the presidential election on April 11. President Deby defeated a former prime minister Albert Pahimi…