BREAKING: Son Of Chad President, General Mahamat Kaka Named Interim Head Of State

General Mahamat Kaka, the son of the deceased Chadian president, has been named interim head of the state, Army spokesman announced this on Tuesday.

Mr Deby died on Tuesday of injuries he sustained on frontline. Army Spokesman, General Azem Bermandoa Agouna announced this minutes after the death of Idriss Deby.

General Azem had earlier confirmed that the late President of Chad “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield”.

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The news came a day after Deby, who came to power in a rebellion in 1990, won a sixth term, as per provisional results released on Monday. Deby took 79.3 percent of the vote in the April 11 presidential election, the results showed.

Deby postponed his victory speech to supporters and instead went to visit Chadian soldiers battling rebels, according to his campaign manager.

The rebel group Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), which is based across the northern frontier with Libya, attacked a border post on election day and then advanced hundreds of kilometres south.

The late President was shot dead at the war front while confronting some rebels.