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But even after Chad's independence in 1960, many northerners still identified more closely with the people in Libya than with the southern-dominated government in N'Djamena. [1] After seizing power in 1969, Libyan head of state Muammar Gaddafi reasserted Libya's claim to the Aozou Strip , a 100,000-square-kilometer portion of northern Chad that ...
Libya's king Idris I felt compelled to support the FROLINAT because of long-standing strong links between the two sides of the Chad–Libya border. To preserve relations with Chad's former colonial master and current protector, France, Idris limited himself to granting the rebels sanctuary in Libyan territory and to providing only non-lethal ...
Libya: See Chad-Libya relations. Chadian-Libyan relations were ameliorated when Libyan-supported Idriss Déby unseated Habré on December 2. Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor ...
The Tripoli Agreement (also known as the Libya Accord or the Tripoli Declaration) was signed on February 8, 2006, by Chadian President Idriss Déby, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, effectively ending the Chadian–Sudanese conflict that had devastated border towns in eastern Chad and the Darfur region of western Sudan since December 2005.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who had been detained in neighbouring Libya on Tuesday, working in partnership with the United Nations' International Organization for ...
Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby said on Sunday that the army was again fighting the Libya-based Chadian Front for Change and Concord (FACT) group, which quit a ceasefire last week amid ...
By 2023, about 7,000 Chadian rebels were still active, scattered across Sudan, Libya, Niger, and Chad itself. [7] In January 2023, a new insurgent group was founded at the Central African Republic–Chad border.
Operation Manta was a French military intervention in Chad between 1983 and 1984, during the Chadian–Libyan conflict.The operation was prompted by the invasion of Chad by a joint force of Libyan units and Chadian Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) rebels in June 1983.