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By Spy Uganda Eight Chadian opposition leaders arrested at the end of last month were jailed for eight years on Friday, their lawyer said, the latest detentions of President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s critics. The defendants, all members of the only political movement to have systematically challenged Deby’s election, had been detained in the capital N’Djamena a week before a “protest …

Viewers: 90,001 By Spy Uganda At least 42 people have been killed in eastern Chad after a dispute between two families over access to water spiraled into a wave of retaliatory violence, government officials confirmed. Deputy Prime Minister Limane Mahamat announced the death toll during a visit on Monday to the village of Igote in Wadi Fira province, near …