Sudan Bashir discusses Chad relations with Libyan and Senegalese leaders
January 31, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The President Omer Al-Bashir discussed, with the Libyan leader and the Senegalese president the recent fighting in Darfur with the Justice and Equality Movement and the alleged Chadian support to the rebels.
Al-Bashir met on Friday January 30 and Sunday 31 with Muammar Gadhafi and Abdoulaye Wade. The two leaders brokered reconciliation agreement between the two neighboring countries, Tripoli agreement in Feb 2006 and Dakar agreement in Marsh 2008.
Ndjamena denied the Sudanese accusations and charged Khartoum of brokering the creation of a new alliance between the Chadian rebels to topple the government of the President Idris Deby.
Yesterday for the first time since a while, the website of the Chadian presidency said Sudan declared war on Chad and reaffirmed the readiness of its army to defeat any attempt to overthrow the President Deby.
Also Ahmed Hussein Adam the spokesperson of the rebel group Ahmed Hussein Adam, dismissed any participation of the Chadian army in the North and South Darfur clashes with the Sudanese army last week.
The rebel official said Khartoum accusations are not serious but only aiming at shift attention form Sudan plans to undertake a military operation to remove the Deby who is accused by Khartoum of supporting the JEM rebels.
“Our troops are operating inside Sudan far from Chad and do not need any external support,” said Ahmed Hussein Adam, the spokesman of the rebel movement.
The Sudanese state minister for information Kamal Obeid told reporters that Chadian troops took part in recent attempt by JEM rebels to break out the siege of JEM troops in Muhajriya, South Darfur.
“Chadian forces from the Republican Guard entered Darfur with supplies and ammunitions to lift the siege imposed by the Sudanese armed forces on JEM troops” the Sudanese official said.
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