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Map showing the present-day location of the Republic of Chad (green) within Central Africa. This is a list of conflicts in Chad arranged chronologically from medieval to modern times. This list includes both nationwide and international types of war, including the following: wars of independence , liberation wars , colonial wars , undeclared ...
The Battle of Aouzou refers to a pair of battles fought between Chad and Libya in and around the town of Aouzou (Chad) in August 1987, as part of the Toyota War, the last phase of the larger Chadian–Libyan conflict. The first battle resulted in a Chadian victory, while the second battle, a Libyan counteroffensive, is deemed to have been won ...
Chad keeps control of the Aouzou Strip. Toyota War(1986 – 1987) Libya. CDR PLO [6] [5] FANT. FAP France (Opération Épervier) Decisive Chadian and French victory. Expulsion of Libyan forces from Chad; Central African Republic Bush War (2004 – 2007) Rebels:
Chad has several regions: the Sahara desert in the north, an arid zone in the centre known as the Sahel and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. [9] It is home to over 200 different ethnic and ...
Libya had been involved in Chad's internal affairs prior to 1978 and before Muammar Gaddafi's rise to power in Libya in 1969, beginning with the extension of the Chadian Civil War to northern Chad in 1968. [13] The conflict was marked by a series of four separate Libyan interventions in Chad, taking place in 1978, 1979, 1980–1981 and 1983–1987.
Wars and conflicts involving the Kanem Empire, the Ouaddai Empire, Colonial Chad or modern Chad (1960-). Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Locations of N'Djamena and Massaguet in Chad. In April 2006, soon after the beginning of the civil war in Chad, government forces repelled a rebel attack on the capital in which hundreds of people were killed; the rebels responsible for the attack, the United Front for Democratic Change (FUC) led by Mohammed Nour Abdelkerim, rallied to the government in December. [12]
The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the "common enemy," [14] which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty (RDL) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese ...