The Central African regional hloc had in a statement released on Tuesday, October 31, stated that Chad’s transitional government has given permission to opposition leader who ran from the central African country to return after a dangerous crackdown on protesters calling for a hasty transition to democratic rule.
Succes Masra, the opposition leader in question had run away from Chad after hundreds were injured and dozens killed as security forces brutally clamped down on protests in the capital N’Djamena on October 20, 2022.
The military government ihad ssued an international arrest warrant against him after he fled.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi, who was appointed by the Central African bloc: ECCAS, to liaise Chad’s return to constitutional rule had signed a statement stating that the transitional government and Masra had signed an agreement on Tuesday, October 31.
The deal will allow Masra and all other people who left the country after the Oct. 20, 2022, events to return, the ECCAS statement said.
Chad, now run by the military has been in crisis since the death of President Idriss Deby, in April 2021. The deceased President had ruled the country for about three decades.
His son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, thereafter seized power in the immediate aftermath and originallg promised an 18-month (1 year and 6 months) transition to elections. But at the beginning of October last year, he announced that they would be pushed back by two years, leading to the deadly protests.
