Word: goukouni
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...spite of the magnitude of his victory, Chadian President Hisene Habre still has problems to solve. Foremost among them: he must reach an accord with Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei, a former President of Chad himself and Gaddafi ally whose forces last year joined with Habre's to help defeat the Libyans. But after an unproductive meeting last week between Goukouni and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who is trying to mediate between the two leaders, the President and the rebel commander reportedly remain far apart on issues ranging from Chad's provisional constitution to Goukouni's role...
Gaddafi's military campaign began to sag last October, when he had a falling-out with Goukouni Oueddei, a former Chadian President and leader of rebel forces battling the present government. That rupture prompted most of the guerrillas to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Chadian President Hissene Habre and his French-backed army. Habre, who received $15 million in U.S. emergency aid late last year, began a major drive against the Libyans in December. The effort paid off one month later, when government forces captured the Libyan base at Fada, in northeastern Chad. According to U.S. and French officials...
...recent history of Chad has been a contest between two rival northerners, Goukouni Oueddei, who was once the country's President and has more recently been the leader of the northern rebels, and Hissene Habre, once a guerrilla leader and since 1982 the President. Three months ago, while ( visiting the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Goukouni was shot and wounded in the Gaddafi compound under circumstances that have never been explained. He is still in Libya, reportedly under house arrest...
...whatever reason, Gaddafi's break with Goukouni caused most of the Chadian rebels to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Habre, thereby fundamentally changing the political role of the Libyan forces in northern Chad. Says a Western diplomat in N'Djamena: "What you have now is an invasion of Chad by Libya." Much of the credit for Chad's recent achievements goes to Habre, a French-trained lawyer who has managed to create a sense of unity in a country that has never known the meaning of the word. Buoyed by these successes, the soft-spoken Habre sounded unusually confident...
...took a startling, bloody turn last week as some 2,000 rebels battled three Libyan columns in Chad's Tibesti mountain region. The guerrillas, who earlier helped Libya gain a foothold in northern Chad, broke with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi after his troops shot and wounded Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei last October...