Chadian President Idriss Deby wins fifth term

Chad's veteran leader Idriss Deby has won a fifth term in office after taking more than 60 per cent of the vote in the first round of presidential polls. The country's Electoral Commission said, Deby secured 61.56 per cent of votes in the polls, which was held on the 10th of this month.

style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">Opposition leader Saleh Kebzabo was a distant second on 12.8 per cent. Sixty-four year old Deby took first office in a 1990 military coup. More than six million people were asked to choose between 13 presidential hopefuls in the vote.