The Chadian army carried out airstrikes on Monday morning targeting a column of rebels in the northern Tibesti massif city of Zouarké, 1,000 km from Ndjamena. A military source confirmed these strikes against RFI, indicating that “the enemy has been treated”.
According to a witness, two MiG-21s hit the city of Zouarké on Monday morning to prevent the rebels from advancing. The army asserts that it has sent reinforcements to Tibesti and that “all measures have been taken to neutralize these terrorists”. This intervention follows from a few hours’ statement by the General Staff on the recognition of the Chadian uprising in the north of the country.
Zouarké like Wour was abandoned by the military and customs officials who left their positions to the rebels and “left a lot of material behind” according to a source of the uprising.
Several attacks were claimed on election day
On Sunday, April 11, this uprising twice claimed clashes with the army. But she categorically denies them. According to our information, the Chadian military coalition consisted of four rebel movements sent against Faya Largeau, one hundred vehicles with about 500 men leaving the border area with Libya. “We will force Idriss Déby to leave,” said Mohamed Ali, secretary general of the rebel military coalition.
Le Fact, the Front of the Alternative and the Concorde in Chad also confirmed in a second press release that the attacking army on April 11, the day of the presidential election, in Wour and Zouarké who fell “without resistance into the hands of the insurgency”. Facts urges soldiers to join them.
Since 2018, rebel groups who unsuccessfully try to overthrow the Chadian regime lead invasions and attacks in Tibesti from Libya.
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