Madar (N'Djamena) - Chad's Aboubakar Assidick Tchoroma has been appointed interim Executive Secretary of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), under a decision signed on Monday, 9 November 2026 in N'Djamena by Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, as current chair of the bloc's Conference of Heads of State and Government, according to the Chadian news sites Tchadinfos and Alwihda Info.
According to Alwihda Info, decision No. 001/CCEG/CEN-SAD/2026 provides that the interim will end when a new Executive Secretary, to be elected at the 13th ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Government, takes office.
Tchoroma will work from the organisation's statutory headquarters in the Libyan capital Tripoli, both sources said. Tchadinfos noted that he was appointed diplomatic adviser to Chad's presidency on 29 September, after serving as national education minister.
The appointment follows the 22nd ordinary session of CEN-SAD's Executive Council, which closed in Tripoli on Saturday, 7 November. Its final document provided for an interim executive secretary to work from Tripoli until the bloc's next summit, due in N'Djamena in 2027, the Libyan news agency LANA reported at the time.
Founded in Tripoli in 1998, CEN-SAD counts Mauritania among its members. Nouakchott was represented at the Tripoli meeting by the secretary general of the foreign ministry.
