A CHADIAN government minister and the secretary general in President Idriss Deby’s office have been killed with their pilot in a plane crash near the capital Ndjamena. Their small six-seater chartered aircraft came down overnight Wednesday in a sandstorm just across the border from Chad in Cameroon. The dead included Ali Ahmed Lanine, the minister for economic promotion and development, and Deby’s aide Abderamane Dadi, who were overseeing a major oil exploitation project Chad is undertaking with Cameroon. – AFP