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Mbairam Alladoum becomes prefect of Chad’s Lac-Wey

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Mbairam Alladoum has officially taken office as prefect of the Lac-Wey department in Chad’s Logone Occidental province. He succeeds Ahmed Oumarou Djibrilla after about two and a half years in the post, at a ceremony held in Moundou, Alwihda Info reports.

Mbairam Alladoum has officially taken office as prefect of the Lac-Wey department in Chad’s Logone Occidental province, replacing Ahmed Oumarou Djibrilla. The handover ceremony took place on Tuesday 13 October in Moundou, chaired by the government’s general delegate to the province, Dago Yacoub, Alwihda Info reports.

Appointed by presidential decree on 5 October 2026, Mbairam Alladoum heads a department with more than 455,000 residents across seven sub-prefectures, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, Economic and Demographic Studies dating from February 2018. Ahmed Oumarou Djibrilla had held the post for about two and a half years.

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