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Legislative and local elections will be held separately in the first quarter of 2020, the Chairperson of the Chadian Electoral Commission (CENI) Kodi Mahamat told the media Thursday in N’Djamena.
Until now, women in Chad were the ones controlling the tontines, particularly among civil servants and private sector workers who are increasingly using this rotating contribution formula to meet their needs.
Chadian leader Idriss Deby and the head of the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), Kodi Mahamat have disagreed on the dates to hold legislative and local elections.
An accident involving a public transport bus in Loumia, a town located 80 kilometres from the Chadian capital N’Djaména, on Thursday killed nine people and injured 20, APA learned.
Chad’s National Assembly, meeting in a plenary session, adopted by a majority (115 votes) a resolution extending by four months a state of emergency introduced in three provinces on August 19.
E-commerce or e-Trade is making a breakthrough in Chad where, however, this new trading system is hampered by the modest flow of the Internet, the low bankability of Chadians and the lack of proper street identification.
Chad’s Defense Minister, Mahamat Abali Sala, on Wednesday, announced the closure of his country’s land borders with Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) citing security reasons for the move.
At least 3,356 Chadian officials from various ministries will not receive their August salaries after a government-sponsored diploma audit to clean up the state payroll system.
A major controversy has emerged in Chad where human rights organizations and the opposition strongly denounced President Idriss Déby’s comments on inter-ethnic conflicts in the east of the country, advising the police to shoot any protagonist who refused to lay down their weapon.
Mahamat Issa Abakar, a young Chadian student in the fifth year of his Civil Engineering course, is the inventor of a so-called Drone-Tech, with an ambition to create drones committed to tasks related particularly to public works, agriculture and security.