President Idriss Déby of Chad is dead.
The death of the Chadian leader, who was expected to be declared winner of the presidential election on April 11, 2021, was announced by the Army.
It would have been Deby’s sixth term.
He was said to have “breathed his last breath defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield”, the spokesman of the Chadian Army, General Azem Bermandoa Agouna, said in a statement read out on state television.
Chad’s army is currently combating rebels who launched an assault on the capital, N’Djamena.