title: 2021 in Chad
text: # 2021 in Chad
  
  Events in the year 2021 in Chad.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Idriss Déby (until April 20)
  * Prime Minister: Albert Pahimi Padacké (starting April 26)
  * Vice President: Djimadoum Tiraina (starting April 20)
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Chad
  
  * 6 February – Police in N’Djamena fire tear gas and make several arrests as hundreds set tires on fire and protest against President Déby's nomination to run for a sixth term in April.
  * 16 February – Chad deploys 1,200 troops to the ″tri-border region″ of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso during the G5 Sahel summit.
  * 28 February – Opposition leader Yaya Dillo says his mother, son, and three other members of his family were killed in a pre-dawn raid on his house led by the president's son. A government spokesperson said that Dillo had failed to respond to two judicial mandates, and that two people were killed and five injured, including three police officers.
  * 3 April – The Niger human rights commission calls for an independent inquiry following alleged rapes, including that of an 11-year-old girl, by Chadian soldiers deployed to help fight armed groups.
  * 11 April – The Northern Chad offensive begins, a day after the 2021 Chadian presidential election.
  * 19 April – President Idriss Déby wins the 2021 Chadian presidential election for his sixth term.
  * 20 April – President Idriss Déby is killed one day after it was announced that he had won the election.
  * 24 October – The 2021 Chadian parliamentary election was again delayed until September, 2022.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 22 – Routouang Yoma Golom, militant and politician, MP (since 2011).
  * April 20 – Idriss Déby, politician, president (since 1990)
  