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Chad goes to polls in votes boycotted by opposition

Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno gestures as he meets with France's President prior to a working lunch at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on February 6, 2023. [AFP]

Chad goes to the polls Sunday in legislative and local elections which the government of President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno presents as a key step towards a democratic transition but which opposition parties dismiss as a "masquerade".

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