N'Djamena [Chad], December 30: Polls have closed in Chad's first parliamentary election in 13 years, which the government has presented as a key step towards ending a military rule.
The voting ended at 6:00pm local time on Sunday. Provisional results are expected by January 15 and final results by January 31 in the large, mainly desert Central African nation of 18 million people
Opposition parties have urged Chad's eight million voters to shun elections whose results they said had been decided in advance.
Source: Qatar Tribune
