WEST AFRICA: IRIN-WA Update 840
CHAD: Government still ready to talk peace with rebels
Chadian spokesman Mahamat Louani said on Thursday the government was still
ready for peace talks with rebels despite fighting between their forces on
31 October.
Louani's said, in a statement read over state-owned radio, that the
government "reaffirms its readiness to work for the search of peace" with
the Mouvement pour la democratique et la Justice au Tchad (MDJT).
He said that in the fighting in the Gezenti area of the Tibesti, near the
northern border with Libya, government troops inflicted heavy casualties on
the rebels, destroyed their operational base and captured large quantities
of supplies.
The MDJT, lead by former defence minister Youssouf Togoimi, refuses to talk
peace until President Idriss Deby resigns. The movement has been fighting
government troops in the Tibesti desert since October 1998.
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