Word: djamena
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...warning to Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose intervention in behalf of Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei had threatened to topple the government of President Hissene Habré. The message: Libya should not move its forces any farther south in the direction of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. What had started two months ago as the latest round in a long struggle between two northern Muslim warlords seeking control of N'Djamena had thus become a test of France's determination to maintain its traditional links with its African allies, and of Libya's attempt to destroy...
Many government soldiers who escaped the final assault of the Libyan and rebel forces on Faya-Largeau were fleeing across the desert toward the eastern town of Abéché and the capital city of N'Djamena, 400 miles to the southwest. Evidence of the scale and intensity of the Libyan air raids could be seen in N'Djamena's public hospital, to which some 140 soldiers had been brought. They had been flown out of Faya-Largeau at night when government forces could still use the town's unpaved airstrip. Evacuation of the injured...
...other hand, a Libyan ground offensive would be extremely difficult to carry out; the roads are bad in the best of times and impassable in heavy rain. The hope of most Western observers in N'Djamena is that Gaddafi will be content to occupy the northern third of Chad and press for a new Chadian government that would be more to his liking. In a television interview late last week, Gaddafi blandly denied that he was providing the Chadian rebels with anything but "moral" support, and called for negotiations between the rival forces in Chad...
...face de facto partition. That might be a relatively painless solution to the present crisis, but it would set a dangerous precedent for an unstable continent where the rule has long been to honor the boundaries inherited from colonial times. -By William E. Smith. Reported by John Borrell/N'Djamena and Thomas A. Sancton/Paris
Until June, Goukouni's rebel forces controlled a third of the country and seemed prepared to march on N'Djamena from the eastern town of Abéché. Strengthened by the delivery of more than 400 tons of arms and ammunition from France, however, Habré's army recaptured Abéché last month. After Goukouni lost Faya-Largeau, Gaddafi apparently concluded that only direct Libyan assistance could prevent a total rout of the Chadian rebels. But by sending in his air force and thereby provoking the U.S. to step up its support for Habr...