Members of the security forces patrol Chad’s capital N’Djamena following the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Chadian security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters who took to the streets of the capital N’Djamena on Saturday to protest against a military takeover that followed the death of President Idriss Deby on the battlefield last month.
On Friday the transitional military government, led by Deby’s son Mahamat Idriss Itno, had banned the protest called by a coalition of some opposition parties and civil society groups.
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