President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno of Chad has formed the first government of his five-year term, officials announced on Monday.
Minister of State and Secretary General of the Presidency, Mahamat Ahmat Allabo, read the signed decree on state television, advising that the government, led by Prime Minister Allamaye Halina, has 35 members.
The new government will be tasked with completing the country's return to constitutional rule after more than three years of military transition.
Déby, the son of Chad's former ruler and the country's interim military leader, was sworn in as president for a five-year term on May 23.
He took power with a group of generals in 2021 after the death of his father, Idriss Déby Itno, and suspended the constitution. His father had previously ruled the country for more than 30 years.
Déby is the sixth president in the history of the country of around 19 million inhabitants, which has never experienced a peaceful transfer of power since its independence from the former colonial power France in 1960.
Unlike other military rulers in the region, Déby is an important ally of France, which has redeployed its troops to Chad following coups in the Sahel region.
Since 2020, seven countries in Africa have experienced successful military coups, almost all of them in Francophone West and Central Africa.
Chad is the first country in the so-called Coup Belt in the Sahel region to hold elections since then.