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Article: Chad: country profile.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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As the new millennium neared, it was strongly rumoured that by its beginning former defence minister Youssouf Togoimi and his rebel forces would be in the streets of the capital N'Djamena. Togoimi had taken to the northernmost mountains of the Tibesti region in September 1998 in protest at what he viewed as the increasingly autocratic and clannish rule of President Idriss Deby. So ominous was the situation that Deby went to the front to direct operations. In the end the anticipated attack did not materialize but the claims and counter-claims of the Government and the rebel Mouvement pour la Democratie et la Justice au Tchad (MDJT) continue -- latterly over control of the ...
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