After all, Paris has pursued proxy and traditional war on and in Libya for more than four decades. ‘The friends of our friends, are killing our friends’SUCH was French journalist and military commentator Jean-Dominique Merchet’s near perfect summary of Deby’s death in battle against Chadian rebels streaming south from Libya last month. Chad at the eye of a conflict stormWOULD that shattered and civil/proxy war-torn Libya was Chad’s only neighbour mired in madness. In 1975, Chad’s first president was assassinated by soldiers commanded by French army officers. In 1979, in Operation Barracuda, French troops reversed the overthrow of the government in the Central African Republic.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 29, 2021 18:08 UTC