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...Egypt, which has a mutual defense treaty with Sudan. Another possibility, according to many analysts, is that Gaddafi is training his sights on Chad. In November 1980, he sent Libyan troops to Chad to support former President Goukouni Oueddei in his struggle against former Defense Minister Hissène Habré. But after a 1981 withdrawal of Libyan troops, Habré, backed by Egypt, Israel, Sudan and the U.S., defeated Oueddei. Gaddafi is doubtless anxious to reinstall his ally...
...decades. That struggle ended, at least temporarily, in March 1979, when Muslim guerrillas, armed by Gaddafi, finally succeeded in overthrowing President Felix Malloum, one of the two black Christians who had run the country since it gained its independence from France in 1960. Muslim Leaders Goukouni Oueddei and Hissene Habré then shared power in an alliance of eleven factions with Oueddei serving as President and Habré as Defense Minister...
...fighting soon broke out between the armies of the Libyan-backed Oueddei and the French-backed Habré. The struggle continued off and on, killing thousands and ravaging the country's riverside capital of N'Djamena, until November 1980, when Gaddafi dispatched to Chad a contingent of 4,000 troops, complete with tanks, rocket launchers, mortars, helicopters and MiG-25 fighters, to support Oueddei. Habré quickly agreed to a cease-fire and fled. Gaddafi, who dreams of creating a sub-Saharan Islamic republic from Senegal on the Atlantic to the Sudan on the Red Sea, announced...
...declaration appalled most African governments in the area, as well as the French. Habré and his little army took refuge in the border area between Chad and the Sudan and began to launch periodic raids. What was not realized at the time was that Gaddafi's announcement also alarmed Chad's President Oueddei, who sought a way of escaping Libya's smothering embrace. He supported a proposal of the 50-nation Organization of African Unity to provide troops that could replace the Libyans, whose numbers by last month had reached an estimated 10,000. Nigeria...
Rumors are flying around N'Djamena to the effect that Vice President Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue, the present leader of Chad's comparatively prosperous south with its sizable Christian minority, is being encouraged by France to secede from the arid, impoverished northern region. At the same time, Habré's well-disciplined force of 1,500 men is regrouping near the town of Abeche, 400 miles northeast of the capital, where they are receiving assistance from both the Sudan and Egypt for a protracted guerrilla war. After 16 years of combat. Chad's 4.5 million people...