Protesters in Chad have taken to the streets of the capital Ndjamena calling for the Military Transitional Council which was installed last week to be scrapped.
Two people have reportedly been killed in the capital and in the south of the country as anti-riot police used force to disperse crowds of protesters.
The regime had imposed a ban on protests.
There were plumes of heavy smoke billowing over N’Djamena where protesters went on the rampage burning tyres and French flags calling an end to what they called authoritarian rule.
They demanded for talks between civil society and members of the military council over the holding of democratic elections “for a more representative Chadian government”
However, the new military regime led by Mahamat Deby Kaka, has responded with force.
37-year old was appointed head of state after his father Idriss Deby who had ruled Chad since 1990, was killed in a rebel incursion last Tuesday.
Several arrests have been reported as demonstrators were pursued in Ndjamena neighbourhoods and rounded up by “heavily armed” gendarmes on Tuesday morning, according to some sources.
Internet services have been cut.
The new military regime is dealing with a rebel insurgency by the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT) in its bid to seize power in Ndjamena.
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