Chad
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Chad covers major events in domestic politics, foreign policy and socio-economic development in 2021. Incumbent president Marshal Idriss Déby Itno who won the contested presidential elections on 11 April, was shot dead by an unknown person a week later. The constitution was put aside and General Mahamat Déby Itno, one of murdered president Déby’s sons, took office. While numerous civil society actors have accepted to take part in the new National Assembly, few political-military movements have accepted the terms for collaboration given by the new Military Transitional Council. Inter-communitarian conflicts continued, and the number of both IDPs and refugees raised significantly