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The Chadian Army raised this Sunday to more than one hundred the rebels killed in clashes in recent days in the province of Moyen-Chari (south of the country), during the fighting between the Armed Forces and two insurgent groups.
The clashes, which took place in the department of Korbol, not far from the border with the neighboring Central African Republic (CAR), first involved the Movement for Peace, Reconstruction and Development (MPRD) and, later, the Republican Front for Patriotic Alternation and Equity (FRAPE).
"It is true that the fighting continues (…) We are on the ground (…) and a hundred of them (the rebels) have perished during the attacks," Colonel Chafardine Nimir, representative of the Chadian Army in the area, told EFE.
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This hundred militiamen dead includes the 69 that were reported this Wednesday to EFE by military sources, who also estimated eight Chadian soldiers dead until then.
After several days of fighting between the Armed Forces and the MPRD, new clashes broke out last night in the area with the FRAPE, which has a different version of events and claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on the Army. "The fighting continues since yesterday. Faced with the resistance of our men, the tribal Army of President (of Chad, Mahamat) Idriss Déby Itno fled this Sunday leaving behind the bodies of 27 dead soldiers, as well as several vehicles and military equipment," Abdelbassit Ahmat Khamis, FRAPE spokesman, told EFE. "However, we regret that, in their flight, they started fires in several villages," added the rebel. The violence in the area occurred after several months of discreet negotiations between the Chadian authorities and the leaders of the MPRD, with the aim of achieving the abandonment of weapons and the integration of the rebels into a global peace agreement. Around twenty rebel groups operate in Chad, claiming to fight the authorities since April 2021, when the then-president, Idriss Déby Itno, who had governed the country since 1991, died during clashes with the rebel group Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT). After his death, his son, General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, took power, who annulled the Constitution and dissolved the Government and Parliament, leading a transition period. After almost three years of transition, Chad held presidential elections on May 6, 2024, in which Déby Itno obtained 61% of the votes, according to the Chadian National Electoral Management Agency (ANGE).
