Chad's Deby Takes Early Election Lead, Partial Results Show 

N'DJAMENA, CHAD - Chad President Idriss Deby has taken a strong early lead and appeared poised to extend his three-decade rule, partial provisional results of the April 11 presidential election released by the election commission showed.

Deby has won a majority in all but one of the 51 departments announced so far, and he secured a plurality in the other, with 61 departments remaining, according to the Independent National Election Commission (CENI). Kilmapone Larme, head of logistics at the CENI, said they had still not received more than 30% of results. A group of Libya-based rebels, the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), attacked a Chadian border post in the north of the country on election day.