Chad: the former chief of staff of the Fact rebels joins the transitional power
Chadian General Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of the Transitional Military Council, at the presidential palace on April 27, 2021 in Ndjamena.
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The deputy chief of staff of the Fact rebels during their April 2021 attack which cost the life of Idriss Deby, and who had then won the UFDD, another armed group, has just rallied to the power of Chadian transition, according to concordant sources.
Aged 59, Colonel Nigue Kross was part of all the rebellions that have marked the history of his country.
His rallying to power sparked the beginning of a controversy.
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After a first night spent on Chadian soil, this Wednesday, Colonel Nigue Kross was reported in the village of Onianga-Kébir, near the Libyan border this Thursday morning, according to sources.
Colonel Nigue Kross joined the 1979 Frolinat rebellion when he was 16 years old.
He then rolled his bump in the army, then from one rebel movement to another, until his rallying
to the Fact of Mahamat Mahdi Ali
, two years ago, where he was appointed head of state- deputy major.
It was the title he wore when the rebellion launched its big April offensive last year.
The one during which
President Idriss Deby Itno was killed
.
Is it a desire to escalate this rally?
In any case, Chadian military sources assure that it was he who was at the head of this offensive and that he would have saved Mahamat Mahdi Ali from certain capture during the fighting.
On the Fact side, on the contrary, we minimize.
Our sources maintain that he was reported missing as early as April 19, before reappearing a month later.
It was at this time that he became Acting Fact Chief of Staff.
His superior Mahamat Oumar Choukou, at the head of the rebel offensive, had fallen on the battlefield.
His relations with his comrades in arms would have deteriorated until September 2021 when Colonel Nigue Kross left Fact, once again, for the UFDD, where he was appointed, a month later, defense adviser to the president. Nourished.
"
He was ill and he told us about his plan to return to Ndjamena for a month
," swears a senior UFDD official.
A relative of the rebel colonel denies: he explains this return because it is time for dialogue, he says.
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