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Zouar, Chad

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42: 111: 49: 257:, a Libyan garrison was installed, only to be expelled when the former pro-Libyan FAP rebelled in the Tibesti in August 1986; but the town was reconquered with the Libyan counter-offensive in December. In January 1987 the 245:
rebels led by Mahamat Ali Taher, and was relieved only by the arrival in August of a French expeditionary force. One of the last strongholds held by the government in the north, it was attacked in June 1977 by the
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An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996
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After Chad's independence, Zouar played an important role during the
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founder Youssouf Togoimi, respectively born in 1944 and 1953.
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In October 1998, with the foundation of the insurgent
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Index

Zouar is located in Chad
20°27′N 016°31′E / 20.450°N 16.517°E / 20.450; 16.517
Chad
Region
Tibesti
Department
Tibesti Ouest
Sub-Prefecture
Time zone
Arabic
Tibesti Ouest
department
Tibesti
region
Chad
oasis
Tibesti Mountains
Tibesti Department
Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region
derde
Teda
French control
Chadian Civil War
Chadian-Libyan conflict
FROLINAT
People's Armed Forces
Chadian-Libyan conflict
Chadian army
Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad
Youssouf Togoimi

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