Chad’s army spokesman said the military junta that took power in Chad last month after the shock death of veteran leader Idriss Deby Itno named a transition government on Sunday.
The Transitional Military Council had pledged to restore democracy to the poor Sahel country within 18 months after what the opposition condemned as an institutional coup.
Junta spokesman Azem Bermandoa Agouna in a televised statement says Deby’s son Mahamat, the country’s new strongman, named a government comprising 40 ministers and a deputy minister.
Deby also created a new national reconciliation ministry to be headed by Acheick Ibn Oumar, a former rebel chief who became a diplomatic adviser to the presidency in 2019.