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The International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF) plans to send a mission to Chad.

The president of the Transitional Military Council (CMT) has justified the seizure of power saying the move was imperative to tackle “the peril that still threatens Chad.”

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.

54-year-old Albert Pahimi Padacke, who came second in the April11, 2021 presidential election in Chad, is appointed Prime Minister for the 18-month transition decided by the ruling junta.

Chad’s ruling military junta refuses to negotiate with the rebels of the ‘Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde’ in Chad (FACT) despite a mediation launched by some G5 Sahel member countries.

France will never let Chad be threatened by other forces, Emmanuel Macron said in N’Djamena during the funeral of Idriss Déby Itno who died at the age of 68 earlier this week.

President Emmanuel Macron was in Chad (Friday) to attend the funeral of his late Chadian counterpart Idriss Deby, regarded as France’s best military ally in Africa.

The Transition Military Council (TMC) in Chad which took over the country after the death of Idriss Déby Itno was confirmed, has approved a basic blueprint containing 104 articles.

In this interview with the African Press Agency (APAnews), Professor Zacharia Ousmane Ramadan, president of the Chadian Centre for Strategic Studies and Prospective Analysis (CCSSPA), spoke about Idriss Deby’s dominance of Chad for the past thirty years, the consequences of his death on the country’s stability and his commitment to the fight against jihadism in the Sahel.

The death of Chad’s President comes as bad news for France, of which Idriss Deby Itno was one of the toughest military allies in Africa.