Chad’s newly re-elected President, Idriss Deby has died of injuries suffered on the frontline in the Sahel country’s North.
He had gone there to visit soldiers battling rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday.
General Azem Bermandoa Agouna in a statement read out on state television said; “He has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield”
According to provisional election results released on Monday, the late President who came to power in a rebellion in 1990 won a sixth term. His death came less than 24 hours after his victory in the election.
The late President took 79.3 percent of the vote in the April 11 presidential election.
However, his campaign manager said; “Deby postponed his victory speech to visit Chadian soldiers on the frontlines.”