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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Lea NKAMLEUN FOSSO

Military-ruled Chad Votes For President In Bloody Transition

Chadian soldiers get ready to vote in an outdoor polling station in N'Djamena (Credit: AFP)

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 fight against jihadism across the Sahel desert region.

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