More than 400 rebels in Chad were handed life sentences following the death of former ruler Idriss Deby who was killed in 2021, according to a public prosecutor. Recall that in the early part of 2021, the country’s main rebel group, the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), launched an offensive on the north of the country from bases in Libya.
On April 20, the army announced that Marshal Deby, Chad’s iron-fisted ruler for the previous three decades, had died from wounds sustained in the fighting.
Deby died just after being declared winner of a presidential election that gave him his sixth term. He was immediately succeeded by one of his sons, General Mahamat Idriss Deby