N’DJAMENA (Chad), April 20 — Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno was re-elected to a sixth term with 79.32 per cent of April 11’s vote, provisional results showed yesterday, hours after the army said it had killed 300 fighters waging a rebel offensive launched on election day. The provisional results still need to be approved by the Supreme Court after it studies potential legal appeals. But on election day, a heavily armed rebel group launched an incursion into Chad’s north from its rear base in Libya. Today, Chad’s army said it had it had killed more than 300 rebels, capturing 150 more, and lost five soldiers in the eight days of fighting. The Tibesti mountains near the Libyan frontier frequently see fighting between rebels and the army, as well as in the northeast bordering Sudan.

Source: Libya Today April 20, 2021 02:37 UTC