Chad’s newly elected President Mahamat Idriss Deby was sworn in to succeed his late father on Thursday, after three years as an interim leader under military rule.
The inauguration ceremony took place today in the capital N’Djamena, in the presence of members of the Constitutional Council and hundreds of guests. In his inauguration speech, after praising the “return to constitutional order” in a speech, he promised to be “the president of Chadians of all backgrounds and sensibilities” and also praised the spirit of fairness of his presidential opponents who they recognized his victory and congratulated him. “Let us all be actors, committed individually and collectively to bring about this change that is so hoped for, wanted and awaited by everyone,” he added, promising to allocate 70 percent of public spending over the next five years to improving access to education. , water, healthcare, energy and food sovereignty.
Deby seized power after rebels killed his father, long-standing President Idriss Deby, as he was visiting troops fighting militias in the north of the country in 2021.
The older Deby had ruled Chad – which is rich in oil resources but one of the poorest countries in Africa – since a coup in the early 1990s.
Several African leaders attended the event, including the current African Union Chairperson, Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Cheikh AI- Ghazouani, Gabon’s junta leader Brice Oligui Nguema, the Togolese Faure Gnassingbé, the Central African Faustin Archangel Touadera, the Bissau-Guinean Umaro Sissoco Embalo, Burundian Evariste Ndayishimiye and Nigerian Bola Tinubu and the interim prime minister of Niger, which has been under military rule since a coup last year.
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