Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno wins presidential election in Chad

Chad's transitional president and presidential election candidate, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno (C), arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024, during Chad's presidential election, Report informs, citing Le Monde.

Chad's junta chief, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, won this week's presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released on Thursday, May 9, extending his family's decades-long grip on power. Monday's vote aimed to end three years of military rule in a country crucial to the fight against jihadism across Africa's Sahel desert region.

The ANGE electoral commission said Déby won 61.03% of votes, beating his Prime Minister Succès Masra, who only garnered 18.53%, in results due to be confirmed by the Constitutional Council.