00:01Chad's former Prime Minister, Succese Masra, has left the country for medical treatment
00:05two months after his release from prison following a presidential pardon.
00:09He reportedly travelled via Cameroun and Côte d'Ivoire to France on Tuesday,
00:13leaving after taking part in a tribute to the victims of the October 2022 crackdown
00:18on demonstrations demanding a return to constitutional order.
00:22An associate says Masra's health had deteriorated during his year in detention,
00:26but his departure for treatment was delayed as he waited for his passport to be renewed.
00:31The opposition leader and fierce critic of President Mohamed Dibi
00:34was arrested in May last year and sentenced to 20 years in jail in August.
00:39He was accused, along with others, of causing a clash between herders and farmers
00:43in the southwest of the country, in which at least 42 people died.
00:47Masra denied the charges against him, which included hate speech, xenophobia and inciting a massacre.
