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The Chadian government on Tuesday refused to extend a peace deal to rebels who were defeated in a recent conflict stoked by national, regional and international interests.
A day after quashing the rebel forces in the country’s capital, N’Djamena, Chadian Prime Minister Nouradine Delwa Kassire Coumakoye dismissed talk of a cease-fire with the rebel Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). The group advanced across the country Jan. 31 from its bases in the porous Chad-Sudan border region and attempted to topple the regime of Chadian President Idriss Deby — whom the rebels have accused of being corrupt and dictatorial.
The defeated rebellion was significant in that French, EU and Sudanese interests formed part of the calculation that motivated the UFDD to launch its cross-country assault against N’Djamena.
Deby, who first took power in a 1990 coup, clearly was fighting for his survival and likely expected to receive no quarter had he lost. Similarly, had the UFDD rebellion been successful, Deby’s small group of regime loyalists would have expected an immediate and complete reversal of fortune — the result of the group’s tight control over the country’s few resources. Of course, any personal security guarantees also would have been in jeopardy.
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