President Idriss Deby of Chad is dead.
Army spokesman, General Azem Bermandoa Agouna, in statement broadcast on state television, said Mr Deby died of injuries he sustained on the frontline while visiting Chadian soldiers waging a bitter war against rebel fighters in the north.
President Deby “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield,” General Agouna said in the statement.
