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Africa Subsaharan
Chad: Former rebel leader becomes defense minister
2007-03-06
(SomaliNet) Former rebel leader Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim has become the country's minister of defence two months after he agreed to end his rebellion against President Idriss Deby.
I guess that makes sense, in a sub-Saharan Africa sort of way...
He just wanted his piece of the action
Mr. Nour headed the United Front for Democratic Change which led a raid on the capital, N'Djamena, in April last year in which hundreds of people died. He signed a peace deal in Libya, while other rebels in the east, bordering Sudan's Darfur region, did not.

The crisis in Darfur has spilled over the border and the governments of Chad and Sudan accuse each other of supporting the other's rebels. As a result eastern Chad is plagued with insecurity and in the past year some 120,000 Chadians have fled their homes to join more than 200,000 Sudanese refugees already living in camps. Last month, Chad rejected a United Nations military peacekeeping force for its border with Sudan. The UN has proposed 11,000-strong force to be backed up by helicopter gun ships to protect refugees in Chad and the Central African Republic displaced by Darfur's conflict.
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