In Chad, transitional military council suspends constitution and dissolves parliament

Chad’s military has said President Idriss Deby has died from wounds sustained during a visit to front-line soldiers battling a rebel group, just after being declared the winner of a presidential election that would have handed him a sixth term in office. Deby’s son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, was swiftly named interim president by a transitional council of military officers, army spokesman Azem Bermendao Agouna said on state television on Tuesday. Here is what the army announced about the post-Idriss Deby era: The dissolution of the government and the national assembly; Mahamat Idriss Deby to head 18-month transitional council; Instead of the current constitution, a transitional charter to be put in place by the head of the council [...] Under Chad’s suspended constitution, the speaker of the now-dissolved legislative assembly would have been the one to exercise provisional presidential powers and lead the country’s transition.
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