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00:00 Now counting is underway after the people of Chad voted in a presidential election that is set to end three years of military rule
00:06 The vote will decide whether to extend three decades of power for the Debbie family in a country that is crucial to the fight
00:13 Against jihadism across the northern Sahel desert region of North Africa
00:17 Well, let's have the latest then from a reporter in the capital for us Claire Pakkala
00:21 Voting has now ended in this presidential election in Chad
00:28 It's so ten candidates go up against each other including the current interim president
00:34 Mohammed Idris Debbie it no one known as MIDI here after his initials
00:38 He was the favorite alongside his prime minister and political rival Sukhse Masra now
00:44 We've just been speaking to the head of the National Election Agency in the building right behind me
00:49 And he said to us that he has now two weeks to announce the results
00:55 Now the results could come at any point within that two-week period
00:57 But he was very clear that no candidate should announce their victory before the agency has announced its results
01:05 Now this presidential election is of course coming after Chad has been in a three-year transition
01:10 Period the late president Idris Debbie he was killed on the battlefield
01:15 Visiting troops three years ago and that led the army to step in this presidential election
01:21 Then is the next step as Chad moves from military rule back into civilian rule
01:27 Claire Packerland our correspondent talking to us there from the Chadian capital