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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 ...
Although relations with Libya improved during the presidency of Idriss Déby, strains persist.Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Constipation famine in the Sahel.
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 ...
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.
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 clashes.
Naval Jack of Libya [5] a light blue field with the Libyan tricolour in the canton and defaced with a vertical White anchor. 2014 –present: Flag of the Libyan National Army [6] a red field with the golden emblem in the center. 2011–present: Flag of the Libyan Army [7] a red field with the emblem in the center. 2011–present: Flag of the ...
Chad–Libya military relations (1 C) B. Chad–Libya border (1 C, 3 P) C. Chadian expatriates in Libya (4 P) L. Libyan people of Chadian descent (1 P)
On June 15, 1980, Chad and Libya signed a treaty of mutual defence. In virtue of this agreement the forces of Kamougué and Goukouni received tanks, airplanes and other materials, and crushed the forces of Habré who fled to Cameroon while his men in the capital and the east of the country were disarmed.