Chad’s president to visit Sudan on Wednesday
January 28, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Chadian president Idris Deby is expected to visit the Sudanese capital on Wednesday for talks with his Sudanese counterpart, Omer Hassan al-Bashir.
The two countries joint efforts to end the Darfur conflict since January 2010 when they agreed to deploy a joint security force on the border to prevent cross border attacks and to stop support to rebel groups from the two sides.
Deby also hosted a forum for Zaghawa tribe leaders to discuss ways to bring the tribe’s sons to join the peace process aiming to end the nearly 11-year conflict in Darfur region.
The rebel groups accuse the Chadian government and president Deby of encouraging personally defection of former rebels to join Khartoum government.
He is also regularly accused of being involved personally in some attacks on their positions or against their leaders.
The Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) military spokesperson Ahmed Hussein Ardob on Monday said the Chadian government was involved in the killing of its operations chief commander Mohamed Harri Cherdgo in North Darfur on 13 January.
Ardob claimed that the head of Sudanese intelligence service, Mohamed Atta, discussed ways to dismantle the SLM with their former chief of general staff Mohamed Tani Basher in Ndjamena in a meeting organised with an aide of the Chadian president earlier in January.
Chadian president who was once supportive to the insurgency says the activities of the Sudanese rebel groups in Darfur prevent bilateral trade and economic cooperation with Sudan and destabilise his regime.
(ST)