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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.
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.
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 ...
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)
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.
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
Libya called this area the Libya–Chad Borderlands; this was the disputed territory between Chad and Libya. [1] Chad on the other hand argued that there was an existing border and asked the court to define it. [5] It maintained that the Aouzou Strip was part of its territory. [2] Chad's territorial claim was based on the 1955 Treaty of ...