N'DJAMENA – N'Rebels in Chad threatened to depose the son of the country's slain president after he was named interim leader of the central African nation, raising the specter Wednesday of a potentially violent power struggle.
Uncertainty prevailed early Wednesday over how far the rebel column was from N'Djamena, a city of 1 million people, and whether the military would remain loyal to Mahamat Deby Itno in the aftermath of his father's death after three decades in power.
The rebel group that the military blamed for President Idriss Deby Itno's death said late Tuesday that its forces were “heading toward N’Djamena at this very moment.” “Chad is not a monarchy,” said a statement from the group known as the Front for Change and Concord in