{"id":154843,"date":"2021-12-08T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=154843"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:42:53","slug":"idriss-debys-son-succeeds-him-as-chads-only-five-star-army-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=154843","title":{"rendered":"Idriss Deby&#8217;s son succeeds him as Chad&#8217;s only five-star army general"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/108\/10818665.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno | Photo credit: @tchadinfos\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">N\u2019DJAMENA, Dec 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Former Chadian leader Idriss Deby Itno was the only five-star general the country had till his death in April 2021.<br><br>He died on the frontlines when he joined a campaign to halt the advance of rebels who were threatening to depose him.<br><br>Eight months after his death, Chad has a new five-star army general in the person of Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.<br><br>He was conferred with the title of general a week ago, moving a step from lieutenant general rank (four-star) he held as at the time of his father&#8217;s death.<br><br>Mahamat is currently leading a transitional government that was formed by the military following the death of his father.<br><br>The presidency&#8217;s head of protocol sent a press release on Thursday (December 2) informing state institutions and the public of the changes.<br><br>The day before, Mahamat appeared for the first time in a uniform bearing his new rank and a command car with matching credentials. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno N\u2019DJAMENA, Dec 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Former Chadian leader Idriss Deby Itno was the only five-star general the country had till his death in April 2021. He died on the frontlines when he joined a campaign to halt the advance of rebels who were threatening to depose him. Eight months after his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":154844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}