Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye

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Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye
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Born1953
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UFDD-F

Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye (born 1953)

UFDD-Fundamental, which has participated in February 2008 to the unsuccessful attack on N'Djamena
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Batha. He fought as a CDR militant in 1980 in the second battle of N'Djamena which saw confronted the President Goukouni Oueddei and his Defence Minister Hissène Habré; during the confrontation Abdelwahid was wounded, and since then he has always limped. Successively he became a civil servant, and occupying under the government of Idriss Déby the office of subprefect.[1]

In 2003 Abdelwahid broke with Déby and passed in open rebellion.

Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim.[3]

On January 19, 2006, Abdelwahid was arrested, along with nineteen other rebels, after participating in an

Sudanese government was providing financial and material support to the FUC. He was released from jail shortly after.[5] His arrest was denounced by the Dakar-based human rights organization Rencontre africaine pour la défense des droits de l'homme [fr] (RADDHO)[6]

Abdelwahid organized in April together with Nour the attack on the capital, which ended in a defeat for the rebels.[1] During those days Déby arrested for fear of collusion with the rebels the general Ahmat Fadoul Makaye, the Chadian army's Deputy Chief of Staff and cousin of Abdelwahid. He was cleared of all suspicions and freed three days later.[7] The latter was removed on September 26 with Issa Moussa Tamboulé from the FUC's political bureau; he was allegedly suspected of secretly plotting with the Déby government.[8] Around the same time Abdelwahid, who represented an Arab faction increasingly hostile to Nour since his failed attack, using his position of secretary-general destituted Nour.[9]

Following this, Abdelwahid with a group of FUC dissidents united with

Acheikh ibn Oumar's Democratic Revolutionary Council (CDR) and Mahamat Nouri's Union of Forces for Progress and Democracy (UFPD) to found on October 22 the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD).[10]

In April 2007, a major crisis shook the UFDD, when the Vice-President Acheikh ibn Oumar demanded Nouri a major role to his men in movement's apparatus. Nouri refused and expelled Acheikh and consolidated the control of his ethnic group, the

Gorane, over the UFDD[11]

After Acheikh, also Abdelwahid, anxious to retake his freedom of movement from Nouri, left the UFDD and founded in May with Acheikh a new armed group, the

Union of Forces for Democracy and Development-Fundamental (UFDD-F),[1] an Arab-dominated group[12] estimated to count on about 500 militants.[13][14]

Abdelwahid took part to the peace talks held through

Chadian army. Among the rebel leaders, Abdelwahid was the only one to call the paper signed a "definitive accord", while the others only considered it provisional.[16] Due to the latters objection the four rebel leaders signed on October 25 a new accord in Surt, presumed to be definitive, under which the armed movements would disarm in November and become political parties.[17]

The accord was broken already on November 26, giving way to violent fighting between the rebels and the government.

Chad Air Force, first on December 28 and later on January 6, 2008.[19]

By the end of January, the three rebels leaders put on the ground 3,000 men for an attack on the capital to deal onca and for all with Déby. The forces reach the capital, but are defeated after a battle that leaves 160 dead on the ground, forcing the rebels to retreat.[20]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f "- Le triumvirat de la rébellion - Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". JEUNEAFRIQUE.COM. 11 February 2008. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Making Sense of Chad". Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
  3. ^ "unsudanig.org". Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Rebels admit 'friendly' ties with Sudan but deny receiving support". IRIN. 2006-01-18.
  5. ^ "Sudan arrests 20 Chadian rebels in Khartoum". Reuters (ReliefWeb). 2006-01-20.
  6. ^ http://www.panapress.com/freenewspor.asp?code=por028799&dte=25/01/2006[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "- La guerre est-elle finie ? - Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". JEUNEAFRIQUE.COM. 25 April 2006. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  8. ^ Doud, Mahamat Saleh (2006-10-05). "Est du Tchad : Des coups bas aux faits sur le terrain" (in French). Alwihda. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28.(in French)
  9. ^ "Press Release". Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
  10. ^ "Rebels take control of Chad town | the Australian". Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  11. ^ "- Les rebelles se déchirent - Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". JEUNEAFRIQUE.COM. 30 April 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2014.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "Une alliance de circonstance entre les groupes rebelles tchadiens", Le Monde, 4-2-2008.
  13. ^ "apanews.com". Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
  14. ^ "Sudan" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  15. ^ "D but des négociations à Tripoli entre gouvernement et rebelles tchadiens Atlasvista Maroc". Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  16. ^ http://www.jeuneafrique.com/jeune_afrique/article_depeche.asp?art_cle=APA34427pouvoerreug0[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ "Gouvernement et rebelles tchadiens signent un accord de paix en Libye". 26 October 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  18. ^ "- Pourquoi la guerre a repris - Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". JEUNEAFRIQUE.COM. 3 December 2007. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  19. ^ "Chad declares right to pursue rebels in Sudan after bombings", AFP, 8-1-2008.
  20. ^ "- La bataille de N'Djamena - Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". JEUNEAFRIQUE.COM. 11 February 2008. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
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