Chad’s president Idriss Deby, following his declaration of a “state of war” with neighbouring Sudan, has accused the Sudanese regime of exporting the Darfur crisis to his country:
“The Khartoum regime is secretively going ahead with the recruitment of mercenaries and other elements to put into action its Machiavellian plan — the destabilization of Chad,” Deby said in opening remarks to the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) mini-summit.
“These efforts at destabilization, cunningly orchestrated by Sudan, are deliberately designed to export the Darfur conflict to the subregion,” he said.
“Chad has taken measures to face any aggression coming from Sudan.”
Deby has accused the Khartoum regime of supporting Chadian rebels in the east, on the border with the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, which has been in the throes of a devastating civil war since early 2003.
Several new rebel groups have sprung up recently in eastern Chad, to where about 200,000 refugees from the conflict in Darfur have fled.
(Via Sudan Watch)
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