At least 32 people, including 27 rebels and four soldiers, died this Sunday in a new incursion by the insurgent group the Dynamic Revolutionary Army of the South against a town in southern Chad, the Chadian Armed Forces informed EFE.
“The same group that attacked yesterday morning and was defeated, attempted a new incursion in another town. Disturbed, our men set out again to defeat them,” Colonel Seid Ali, who led the Chadian army’s counterattack, told EFE.
The incident occurred in the town of Maimane, which belongs to the southern province of Moyen-Chari, near the border of the Central African Republic (CAR).
“They often attack and then flee to the CAR. We have mobilized more troops in this area to deal with the situation. At the moment, the situation is under control,” the colonel said.
Clashes this Saturday against the Chadian Army left 27 rebels dead in the nearby town of Sido, according to Ali. “We all thought that the attacks had ended, but this morning the shots also woke us up. Fear has spread throughout the town,” Jonas Narayam, a resident of Maimane, told EFE.
Last May, the Chadian Army made an incursion into the CAR to persecute it and other armed groups that operate in the south of the country and cross the porous borders that separate the two nations.
Dozens of rebel groups that endanger the stability of the country operate in Chad, based mainly in the south of neighboring Libya and in the north of Chad.
In April 2021, President Idriss Déby Itno, who had ruled Chad with an iron fist since 1991, was killed during clashes between the Chadian Army and the rebel group Front for Alternation and Harmony in Chad (FACT, for its acronym in French). ).
His 39-year-old son, General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, seized power, annulling the Constitution and dissolving the Government and Parliament.
