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Chad’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) on Friday announced that the country’s legislative elections will be held on December 13, 2020.
Chad’s army chief, General Tahir Erda, was on Thursday dismissed by President Idriss Déby in the aftermath of a second attack on lakeside settlements by insurgents of the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Six Chadian soldiers have been killed in an attack blamed on Boko Haram insurgents in Tetewa, one of the lake islands in the Lac-Tchad Province, security sources in NDjaména told APA on Tuesday.
Public sector workers in Chad, meeting in a general assembly on Monday at the N’Djaména labour exchange, have decided to go on a general strike starting on Tuesday, to demand the full restoration of their salaries slashed since 2016.
In its latest Human Development Index (HDI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported a breakthrough in life expectancy in Chad, which rose from 47 to 54 years, an increase of seven years.
Finance bill sets at 1,210 billion CFA francs, including expected donations, Chad’s budget for 2020, the Ministry of Finance and Budget announces in a document copied to APA Tuesday.
The Sahel countries are not out of the woods yet in their fight against terrorism, Chadian President Idriss Déby warned in N’Djamena on Tuesday, stressing that this campaign has been rendered difficult by the crises and conflicts affecting neighbouring states.
The oil mill-soap factory, a unit of the cotton company of Chad based in Moundou, main town of the southern province of Logone Occidental intends to resume its production of refined vegetable oil by the end of this year with 12,960 metric tons, APA learned from company sources on Monday.
At least two people are now known to have died after Monday’s riot in Abéché prison, 900 kilometres east of the Chadian capital N’Djaména.
Chadian provincial governors convened their fourth conference Friday in Abeche, in Ouaddaï region, under the theme “Public order, security, protection of people and property, optimization of revenues and rationalization of expenditures: issues and new challenges”, with President Idriss Deby Itno in attendance.