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Chad’s former Prime
Minister and opposition leader Succes Masra has been sentenced
to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of disseminating
racist and xenophobic messages that incited violence, his lawyer
told Reuters on Saturday.
Masra is a staunch opponent of President Mahamat Idriss
Deby, who nonetheless served as prime minister in Deby’s interim
government for about five months before running against him in a
May 2024 election.
Chad’s prosecutor launched an investigation against him in
May in relation to a clash in which dozens were killed in the
southern town of Mandakao that month.
In addition to 20 years in prison, Masra was ordered to pay
a fine of 1 billion CFA francs ($1.8 million), said Kadjilembaye
Francis, one of his lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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