Military-ruled Chad votes for president today

Chadians vote for a president on Monday in an election purportedly aimed at ending military rule but dismissed by opponents of junta leader, Mahamat Idriss Deby, as a fix following violent repression. Voters will choose whether to extend decades of Deby family rule in one of the world’s poorest countries, a crucial territory in the […]


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