General Mahamat Kaka, son of the deceased Chadian leader, Idris Deby, has been named as the interim head of state of the country, Chadian Army spokesman, General Azem Agouna, has said.
The news of Deby’s death came a day after he won a sixth term, as per provisional results released on Monday. Deby took 79.3 per cent of the vote in the April 11 presidential election, the results showed.
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Deby postponed his victory speech to supporters and instead went to visit Chadian soldiers battling rebels, according to his campaign manager.
The rebel group, Front for Change and Concord in Chad, which is based across the
Northern frontier with Libya, attacked a border post on election day and then advanced hundreds of kilometres South.
But it suffered a setback over the weekend.
Agouna told Reuters that army troops killed more than 300 fighters and captured 150 on Saturday in Kanem province, around 300 kilometres (185 miles) from the capital Ndjamena.
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Five government soldiers were killed and 36 were injured, he said.
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