Chad sacks army general for criticising president Idriss Deby

A Chadian army general, Ahmat Koussou Moursal, has been removed from the armed forces after writing an open letter criticising president Idriss Deby.

The Chadian government said the sacked general will not be entitled to any pay or compensatory allowance, but did not give reasons for his removal.

In the letter, Moursal accused president Deby of having abandoned his former comrades-in-arms from Guera, a locality in South-Eastern Chad. He also accused Chadian authorities of not compensating victims of former president Hissene Habré’s brutality from the area