Chad’s Deby seeks sixth term as calls for change mount

Longtime president looking to extend three-decade rule as several opposition leaders urged supporters to boycott poll.

N’Djamena, Chad – Chad’s President Idriss Deby is looking to extend his three-decade rule in an election on Sunday, despite mounting calls for political change. Opposition leaders on Thursday urged their supporters to boycott the poll and called for fresh protests against Deby’s sixth term bid. “There are those who say a sixth term is too much; I say they’re wrong,” Deby, 68, told a rally in the capital, N’Djamena.