Chad’s National Electoral Management Agency (ANEM) announced that transitional President Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno won the May 6 presidential elections with 61% of the vote.

Deby far exceeded the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a second round, the agency said, adding that prime minister and main opposition candidate Succès Masra, 40, had won 18.53 percent of the vote.

Born in 1984 in the capital N’Djamena, Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno belongs to the Zaghawa tribe, which represents a small percentage of Chad’s population, and is best known by the nickname “Mohamed Kaka” or “grandmother”, a nickname that refers to his paternal grandmother who raised him.

His father is former President Idriss Deby, who ruled Chad for three decades before being assassinated in April 2021 by rebels.

Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno has been married three times and has five children with his first wife, whom he married in 2010, the daughter of former Central African minister Abbacar Saboun, and his second wife was from the Zaghawa tribe, to which his father belongs.

His third wife, Dahbaya Omar Soni, from Goran and the daughter of an army general, worked as a journalist before being appointed presidential public relations director in 2019.

Deby studied at local schools in Chad, then enrolled in the group of joint military schools, before travelling to France to take a three-month training course at the military high school in the Aix-en-Provence region.
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Chad has submitted a formal request to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani to support Chad’s candidacy of one of its citizens to assume the presidency of the African Air Navigation Security Agency.

This came during the Mauritanian president’s reception in Nouakchott with Chadian Foreign Minister Mohamed Saleh Nazif, where he handed him a message from his Chadian counterpart Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno.

After the meeting, Nazif said in a press statement: “He handed Ould Ghazouani a letter that includes two points, the first of which is related to the presidential elections in Chad, where Ghazouani, in his capacity as Chairman of the African Union, was briefed on the preliminary results of these elections.
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The French authorities have opened a preliminary investigation into accusations of misuse of public funds against the current President of Chad, Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno, as revealed by the French magazine “Jeune Afrique”.

The magazine reported, citing informed sources, that the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened the investigation last January, after allegations that Deby spent huge sums of money on purchasing luxury clothes through a registered Chadian company called “MHK Full Business.”

According to the sources, the money was transferred in December 2021 and May 2023 to buy 57 suits worth between 9,000 and 13,000 euros each, in addition to 100 shirts at 800 euros each, and 9 “safari jackets” at 7,500 euros each.
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On Tuesday evening, the President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Menfi, held bilateral discussions with the President of the Republic of Chad, Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno, in the capital, Tripoli.

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The media office of the President of the Presidential Council stated that the meeting discussed the progress of work and existing cooperation between the two countries, where the importance of strengthening bilateral relations for the benefit of the two brotherly peoples was stressed, and the necessity of continuing consultation between the two countries in regional and international forums was emphasized.
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