Mahamat Idriss Deby's victory in the first round of the presidential elections was announced by the National Election Management Authority; the current transitional president, heir to his father-president Idriss Deby Itno, obtained 61% of the vote

A MoU was signed with neighboring Libya aimed to enhance joint cooperation in several areas, including moving workforce, protecting the rights of workers and employers and organize the presence of Chadian labor in Libya legally

Chad is host to over 680.000 Sudanese refugees; 60.000 new refugees arrived in the last month alone, most of them women and children, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

The Libyan Minister of Transport based in Tripoli and the Chargé d'Affaires at the Chadian Embassy discussed ways to strengthen relations between Libya and Chad, especially in the field of transport

The opposition party The Transformers, led by former prime minister Succes Masra, will boycott the legislative elections on 29 December, deploring the maintenance of an electoral timetable that is impossible to meet due to heavy flooding