N’DJAMENA, Chad
Blaming the overnight assault on activists from the opposition Socialist Party Without Borders (PSF), headed by Yaya Dillo, the government said that "the situation is now completely under control" and "the perpetrators of this act have been arrested or are being sought and will be prosecuted".
The attack came
after a party member was arrested and accused of an "assassination attempt
against the president of the supreme court", it said.
Dillo is a fierce opponent
of Chad's
transitional president, his cousin Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
He denounced the attack
against the supreme court president as "staged".
The ANSE attack comes a day
after the announcement that Chad will hold a presidential election on May 6,
which both Mahamat Deby Itno and Dillo intend to contest.
Mahamat Deby Itno took power
in Chad after his father, Idriss Deby Itno, was killed while fighting rebels in
2021, after ruling the desert nation for three decades.
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