Iran Press/ Africa: On April 20, 2021, when the death of the former president of the country, Idris Deby, was announced, the Chadian army placed his son Mahamat Idriss Deby, at the head of an interim government consisting of fifteen generals for eighteen months.
Mahamat Idriss Deby had promised that after conducting national dialogues with the presence of all opposition parties and rebel groups, he would hold free and democratic elections within 18 months.
But on Monday, October 10, he was sworn in as the interim president of Chad in a ceremony; a ceremony that was boycotted by a large part of the opposition and civil society.
About 50 people were killed and nearly 300 injured in violence that broke out in Chad on Thursday as hundreds took to the streets to demand a quicker transition to democratic rule.
Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo, who gave the death toll at a news conference, said the government was still compiling casualties from what he described as an armed insurrection.
But human rights groups said that unarmed civilians were massacred as security forces brutally cracked down on demonstrations in the capital, N'Djamena, and several other cities.
The vast, military-run Central African nation has been in crisis since the April 2021 death of President Idriss Deby, who ruled with an iron fist for three decades. 219
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