Mahamat encouraged all political, civil, and military actors in Gabon to favor peaceful political paths leading to the rapid return to democratic constitutional order in the country.
The father of Liverpool football star, Luis Diaz will be freed 'as soon as possible', according to a representative of the rebel group that kidnapped him in Colombia.
There had been little doubt that the 59-year-old would return to the helm of the east African nation which he has ruled with an iron fist since the end of the 1994 genocide.