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Chad’s military government recently signed a deal with more than 40 opposition groups to launch national peace talks later this month. However, the main rebel outfit refused to take part in the deal. The main rebel Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) announced hours before the ceremony at a Doha hotel that it would not sign the deal. Qatar has been spearheading the negotiations which lasted for more than five months.
Under the agreement, Mahamat Idriss Deby’s Transitional Military Council and hundreds of opposition representatives will launch a national peace dialogue in the capital N’Djamena on August 20. The dialogue aims to agree on the schedule and rules for a presidential election that Deby has promised by October.
FACT and other opposition groups wanted assurance from Idriss that he would not stand in the election. Deby has said this could only be negotiated in N’Djamena. Forty-three of the 47 groups who remained at the end of the mediation signed the accord to start national talks.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the African Union urged the junta and opposition to seize the latest opportunity to stabilise a country considered key to international efforts to stamp out Islamic extremists in the Sahel region.
