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Sudanese Army Attack

Sudanese Army Attack Rebels fighting to overthrow Chadian ´ President Idriss Deby Itno said they had pushed back a government counterattack around the town of Am-Zoer, ´ ´ 70km (40 miles) northwest of Abeche, the main hub of international aid operations in eastern Chad. ´ The anti-Deby rebel Alliance National said earlier Am-Zoer had fallen to its fighters on the 17th, the latest in a series of hit-and-run attacks by fast-moving rebel columns of vehicles racing through the bush of east Chad’s rugged borderlands. The recent fighting has forced the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to suspend its activities in eastern Chad, where a European Union (EU) military force (EUFOR) is deployed to protect nearly half a million civilians displaced by conflict. A statement from Chad’s government said Sudanese army ground troops supported by helicopters attacked the Chadian military garrison at Ade on their border. ‘‘By openly intervening with its army and aircraft in Chadian territory, Khartoum is taking off the mask from its aggression against our country’’, the Chadian government said. In Khartoum, a Sudanese army spokesman said the accusation had ‘‘no basis in truth’’. This is a knee-jerk accusation by the Chadian government repeated each time they are attacked by the Chadian opposition groups’’, he told Reuters. In May, Sudan said Chad was behind a Darfuri rebel attack that reached the outskirts of Khartoum (p. 17522). Chad denied that. Chad’s latest accusation against Sudan ´ followed a speech by President Deby late on June 16th in which he denounced what he said was an ‘‘international plot’’ seeking to plunge his country back into civil war. Both the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the African Union (AU) have condemned the attacked by the Chadian rebels. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for dialogue. Furious at the apparent ease of the ´ rebel advance, Deby sharply criticised the EU military force deployed in eastern Chad, accusing it of ‘‘closing its eyes’’ to killings of civilians and refugees by the insurgents. ´ Deby questioned the use of the EUFOR contingent, which has a mandate to protect nearly half a million Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadian civilians sheltering at camps in the east. Speaking in Paris, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana defended EUROF, Sudanese Army Attack Attaque de l’armée soudanaise LIBYE NIGER Zone d’intervention de l’Eufor TCHAD Tiné Lac Tchad Abéché Am-Dam Darfour NIGERIA Adé SOUDAN N’Djamena Doba Goz-Beïda CAM CENTRAFRIQUE 500 km (Le Monde, Paris 19/6) saying it was abiding by its neutral mandate. (Reuters 17 ⁄ 6) Regional analyst Alex de Waal says he thinks the countries are on the brink of an ‘‘international war’’. ‘‘After Darfur rebel group attacked Khartoum, the Khartoum government said it saw the fingerprints of the Chadians all over the operation’’, he told the BBC’s World Today programme. ‘‘They resolved that they would not rest until they had overthrown the government in Chad and I think what we’re seeing is part of that operation.’’ ´ Mr de Waal says Mr Deby has done his utmost to make EUFOR into a defence force against the rebels. ‘‘The European Union force in Chad has been caught in a bit of a trap—most of the troop-contributing countries do not want to get involved in a shooting war; they want to be partisan. ‘‘Trying to keep the peace when there’s no peace to keep is actually an impossible mandate, so the European Union troops have essentially decided to keep their heads down and stay out of the war as it begins to unfold.’’ Meanwhile, the US moved all non-emergency staff from its embassy in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, to Cameroon. Ban Ki-Moon and the UN Security Council have both condemned the rebels’ actions. (BBC News Online 17 ⁄ 6) Border Patrol Meeting Chadian and Sudanese army generals met on June 24th to discuss how to patrol their common border zone, where the rebel offensive overran several Chadian towns. CHAD–SUDAN Khartoum Accused Of Raids As the audacity of cross-border raids increases, could the countries be on the brink of war? Chad accused Sudan’s army of attacking a town on its eastern border on June 17th and blamed its neighbour for Chadian rebel raids which have disrupted international aid operations to help thousands of refugees. Sudan’s military denied the accusation, which again showed tensions flaring between the two oil-producing African states over their common border that runs along the violence-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur. Ó Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Rebels fighting to overthrow Chadian ´ President Idriss Deby Itno said they had pushed back a government counterattack around the town of Am-Zoer, ´ ´ 70km (40 miles) northwest of Abeche, the main hub of international aid operations in eastern Chad. ´ The anti-Deby rebel Alliance National said earlier Am-Zoer had fallen to its fighters on the 17th, the latest in a series of hit-and-run attacks by fast-moving rebel columns of vehicles racing through the bush of east Chad’s rugged borderlands. The recent fighting has forced the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to suspend its activities in eastern Chad, where a European Union (EU) military force (EUFOR) is deployed to protect nearly half a million civilians displaced by conflict. A statement from Chad’s government said Sudanese army ground troops supported by helicopters attacked the Chadian military garrison at Ade on their border. ‘‘By openly intervening with its army and aircraft in Chadian territory, Khartoum is taking off the mask from its aggression against our country’’, the Chadian government said. In Khartoum, a Sudanese army spokesman said the accusation had ‘‘no basis in truth’’. This is a knee-jerk accusation by the Chadian government repeated each time they are attacked by the Chadian opposition groups’’, he told Reuters. In May, Sudan said Chad was behind a Darfuri rebel attack that reached the outskirts of Khartoum (p. 17522). Chad denied that. Chad’s latest accusation against Sudan ´ followed a speech by President Deby late on June 16th in which he denounced what he said was an ‘‘international plot’’ seeking to plunge his country back into civil war. Both the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the African Union (AU) have condemned the attacked by the Chadian rebels. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for dialogue. Furious at the apparent ease of the ´ rebel advance, Deby sharply criticised the EU military force deployed in eastern Chad, accusing it of ‘‘closing its eyes’’ to killings of civilians and refugees by the insurgents. ´ Deby questioned the use of the EUFOR contingent, which has a mandate to protect nearly half a million Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadian civilians sheltering at camps in the east. Speaking in Paris, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana defended EUROF, Sudanese Army Attack Attaque de l’armée soudanaise LIBYE NIGER Zone d’intervention de l’Eufor TCHAD Tiné Lac Tchad Abéché Am-Dam Darfour NIGERIA Adé SOUDAN N’Djamena Doba Goz-Beïda CAM CENTRAFRIQUE 500 km (Le Monde, Paris 19/6) saying it was abiding by its neutral mandate. (Reuters 17 ⁄ 6) Regional analyst Alex de Waal says he thinks the countries are on the brink of an ‘‘international war’’. ‘‘After Darfur rebel group attacked Khartoum, the Khartoum government said it saw the fingerprints of the Chadians all over the operation’’, he told the BBC’s World Today programme. ‘‘They resolved that they would not rest until they had overthrown the government in Chad and I think what we’re seeing is part of that operation.’’ ´ Mr de Waal says Mr Deby has done his utmost to make EUFOR into a defence force against the rebels. ‘‘The European Union force in Chad has been caught in a bit of a trap—most of the troop-contributing countries do not want to get involved in a shooting war; they want to be partisan. ‘‘Trying to keep the peace when there’s no peace to keep is actually an impossible mandate, so the European Union troops have essentially decided to keep their heads down and stay out of the war as it begins to unfold.’’ Meanwhile, the US moved all non-emergency staff from its embassy in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, to Cameroon. Ban Ki-Moon and the UN Security Council have both condemned the rebels’ actions. (BBC News Online 17 ⁄ 6) Border Patrol Meeting Chadian and Sudanese army generals met on June 24th to discuss how to patrol their common border zone, where the rebel offensive overran several Chadian towns. CHAD–SUDAN Khartoum Accused Of Raids As the audacity of cross-border raids increases, could the countries be on the brink of war? Chad accused Sudan’s army of attacking a town on its eastern border on June 17th and blamed its neighbour for Chadian rebel raids which have disrupted international aid operations to help thousands of refugees. Sudan’s military denied the accusation, which again showed tensions flaring between the two oil-producing African states over their common border that runs along the violence-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur. Ó Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008.

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