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Updated April 19, 2021
This image made available courtesy of the Chadian Army on April 18, 2021, shows alleged rebel soldiers belonging to the Front pour l’alternance et la concorde au Tchad (FACT) sitting in the sand after having been captured following clashes with the Chadian army in Nyze, 50km North east of Zigueye, on April 17, 2021.
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The Chadian army said Monday it had killed 300 rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, adding that it had lost five of its soldiers.
A heavily armed rebel group had launched a raid from its rear base in Libya on April 11, the same day as Chad’s presidential election that is expected to see the incumbent Idriss Deby Itno returned to power.
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