Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, traveled this Thursday to N’djamena, capital of Chad, to represent the Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, at the inauguration ceremony of the President of this African country, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.
Idriss Déby won the presidential elections on May 6, in the first round with 61.03% of the votes, defeating his main rival, the former opposition leader and prime minister since last January, Succès Masra, who obtained 18.53 % of the votes.
Chad is a landlocked country, located in north-central Africa. It borders Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west.
It is divided into three large geographic regions, namely the desert zone (north), the arid Sahel belt (center) and the fertile Sudanese savannah (south).
Lake Chad, from which the country gets its name, is the second largest body of water in Africa and the largest in the country.
The highest point in Chad is Emi Koussi, in the Sahara desert, in a country that is home to more than 200 ethnicities, with Arabic and French being the official languages, while Islam and Christianity are the official religions.
On this trip to N’djamena, Téte António is accompanied by Ambassador Abdou Abarry, head of the United Nations Regional Office for Africa, as well as senior officials from his office.
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