The Chief of the General Staff (, ) is the professional head of the

Chad National Army The Chadian National Army (; , ANT) consists of the five Defence and Security Forces listed in Article 185 of the Chadian Constitution that came into effect on 4 May 2018. These are the National Army (including Ground Forces and Air Force), the ...

. He is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the Chadian military. The current Chief of General Staff is General

Abakar Abdelkerim Daoud Lieutenant General Abakar Abdelkerim Daoud (born 1968) is a Chadian military officer. Biography He is a member of the Zaghawa people from the Wadi Fira region and is nicknamed Kirekeyno (“the one who does not flee”, in Zaghawa). He foug ...

who was appointed by President

Idriss Déby Idriss Déby Itno ( '; 18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the sixth List of heads of state of Chad, president of Chad from 1991 until his death in 2021 during the 2021 Northern Chad offensive, No ...

on 31 January 2020, succeeding General Tahir Erda Tahirou.

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Military of Chad

Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...

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