368
N’DJAMENA, Chad – Chad’s slain President Idriss Deby Itno is being buried today, Friday near his hometown after a state funeral in the capital, N’Djamena. This information was passed by military officials on Tuesday, hours after news broke of his death on the battlefield.
President Emmanuel Macron of France, the former colonial power, will attend the ceremony along with a dozen other heads of state and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
The burial ceremony is to be followed by prayers at the capital’s Grand Mosque, after which Late President Deby is to be laid to rest alongside his father in the village of Amdjarass next to his birthplace Berdoba, in the far east of the desert country near the border with Sudan.
