Chad President asks for Libyan help
r NZPA-Reuter Londoni - Chad’s beleaguered Presi-| i dent - Goukouni Oueddei has: for Libyan' help ini his battle with his-.Defence I Minister (Mr Hissen Habre) i for the Chad capital, N’Djamena, the Libyan news hagency, Jana, has said. : ' •. The agency quoted a perI sonal envoy of the Chad : President as saying in the I Libyan - capital,--Tripoli, .that the call fort help stemmed : from a “sincere belief that > the Libyans would not stand idly by while their brethren in Chad were -threatened with death.” - . ’ The President’s forces have been battling those of Mr Habre for ■ control of N’Djamena for two weeks. At least 800 people have been killed and u 0 - to 100,000 have fled the capital for Cameroun. The unnamed envoy -, • in ; Tripoli told a news confer- i
ience that N’Djamena was in [the thrdes of a savage civil 'war. orchestrated by Mr Habre,'who, he alleged, was getting arms from Egypt, JdnA’reported. - The war is [significant outside Chad, because of strategic: location in the centre of Africa, and, its virtually untapped mineral resources. There is sOme hope that the country may,--dike its- neighbours , Nigeria, Algeria, and Libya, have oil. Libya already occupies the north of the country. In N’Djamena at the week-end vultures swooped down to feast on the dead, and starving dogs scavenged through .deserted ' streets, where the civil war seemed to have settled into stalemate, A. tour of the city showed that'neither side had made any big. advance in the street battles.
Chad President asks for Libyan help
Press, 7 April 1980, Page 6
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