Chad's interim parliament took office on Tuesday nearly two weeks after transition president Mahamat Idris Deby named its members.

The 93-member assembly, called the National Transition Council (CNT), approved Haroun Kabadi as its speaker through a vote by acclamation.

Kabadi, 73, was speaker of the former National Assembly, which was dissolved after Deby was killed fighting rebels earlier this year and succeeded by his son, 37-year-old General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.

Deborah Amuwo reports.