Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby has been declared the official winner of the 6 May presidential elections with over 61 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Thursday, extending his family's decades-long grip on power.
Chad's electoral commission (ANGE) said Gen Déby had secured 61.3 percent of the vote – comfortably over the 50 percent needed to avoid a run-off.
