Battle of NDjamena (2006) : Ask Biography

Masked gunmen on a pickup truck near N'Djamena

Military Conflict

Conflict

Battle of N'Djamena

Date

13 April 2006

Location

N'Djamena, Chad

Result

Government victory

United Front for Democratic Change

Chad military

370 killed
271 captured

30 killed

Unknown number of civilians killed, 387 injured on both sides

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:The Battle of N'Djamena was a battle between the forces of the revolutionary United Front for Democratic Change (UFCD) and the military of Chad that occurred on 13 April 2006 when rebel forces launched an assault on the capital of Chad in the pre-dawn hours, attempting to overthrow the government of President Idriss Déby Itno from their bases an estimated thousand miles east.

The battle occurred just months after serious Chad-Sudan tensions ended with the signing of the Tripoli Agreement. Déby broke off relations with the government of Sudan as a result, expelling its diplomats and threatened to stop sheltering thousands of Sudanese refugeesfrom the Darfur region. The Muslim-controlled government of Sudan has also been documented by the United Nations to have engaged in mass murder of approximately 100,000 non-Arab civilians in Darfur in the period 2003 � 2006.

Battle of N'Djamena (2006)

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