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Sudan / Chad: The Honeymoon

By on July 20, 2010
The rebel leaders, who set up their bases on both sides of the border between Chad and Sudan, have to pay back a great burden of the rapprochement between Khartoum and N’djamena.

For many months, Khartoum and N’Djamena have pledged to stop supporting their respective rebellions, and the idea has been circulating that their lands cannot serve any longer as refuge for the rebel leaders of both sides.
In May 2010, the rebel leader of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and enemy number one in Khartoum, Khalil Ibrahim, was declared persona non grata by his Chadian hosts. Now it is the turn of the Chadian rebellion leaders to pack their bags and leave Sudan. The Chadian rebel leaders Mahamat Nouri and Timane Erdimi must leave Khartoum, and look for a shelter elsewhere in the world. The two men are not the sole target. The Secretary General of the Union Forces of Resistance (UFR) has already left Sudan. Abakar Tollimi had returned to Khartoum two weeks ago, after a visit to France. But the Sudanese authorities have informed him to leave too. He already left to some West African country. One of the rebellion leaders has declared: “It is like evil, we must now look for a place to go, may be to Europe, it is safer there…”.

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