Chad's government announced an overnight curfew on Thursday and said deadly clashes between police and demonstrators protesting the military's grip on power claimed around 50 lives.
This photograph taken on October 20, 2022 shows injured protesters at the Union de Chagoua hospital during a demonstration in N’Djamena. Clashes erupted in the Chadian capital N'Djamena between police and hundreds of demonstrators at a banned protest over the ruling junta's grip on power, an AFP journalist saw. FILE PHOTO
A curfew between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am would remain in place until the "total restoration of order" in the hotspots of unrest, he added in a press conference. The head doctor, Joseph Ampil, later confirmed to AFP that five individuals had "died from gunshots". France, Chad's former colonial power, condemned the violence, noting it featured "the use of lethal weapons against demonstrators".
Lewis Mudge, Human Rights Watch's Central Africa director, demanded an impartial investigation to assign responsibility and guarantee that force was only used as a last resort.The violence comes on the heels of a national forum organized by military strongman Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno that extended his stay in power.
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