TRIPOLI - Chad’s president and the leader of a rebel faction that tried to oust him earlier this year signed a peace accord in Libya late on Sunday, but other Chadian insurgents dismissed the deal and vowed to fight on.“Our movement was in a great struggle,” rebel military chief Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim said at the signing ceremony in Tripoli, as Deby and Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi looked on. “Our people suffered...but now we must speed national reconciliation and bring peace to our country.”
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Nour, whose forces raided the Chadian capital NÂ’Djamena in April, called on the other rebel groups to sign the peace agreement and join the Chadian government. However, other rebels groups said Nour was an isolated figure and dismissed the reconciliation as a non-event.
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Makaila Nguebla, a spokesman in Dakar for the National Rally for Democracy (RND), another of the groups in the rebel alliance, said on Sunday the insurgents would fight on. “For us this changes nothing. We’re not interested in any mediation by Gadhafi, or by France, or by anyone. We are going to continue to fight this regime,” he told Reuters by telephone.
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