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LIBYAN INTERVENTION IN CHAD This research paper

This research paper examines the geopolitical effects and implications of the intervention by Libya in Chad in the 1970s and 1980s and its occupation of the Aozou strip.

Between 1965 and 1988, ethnic and religious strife and accompanying internecine internal struggles led to the collapse of the post-colonial order in Chad and created a power vacuum in this central trans-Sahara region. This eventually led to the involvement of Libya in the affairs of Chad in furtherance of the strategic and other foreign policy aims of the radical revolutionary but oil-rich regime in Libya led by the mercurial Colonel Moammar Qaddafi. Libyan support for dissident Chadian warlords and competing factions rapidly grew into more overt and massive intervention by Libya, including its seizure of the disputed Aozou strip on the Libya-Chad border in 1973, its military occupation of the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, in 1980, its short-lived attempt to absorb Chad into Libya in 1981 and its domination of northern Chad in the early to mid-1980s. All of Chad's neighbors were destabilized by the strife in Chad. Most of them and other nations in sub-Saharan Africa, became alarmed at the spread of Libyan-led Islamic influence and power and the threat it represented to their multi-ethnic regimes. Various regional attempts by African nations, principally through the Organization of African Unity (OAU), to pacify Chad achieved little success.

The principal burden of containing the Libyans and restoring a measure of stability in Chad fell on France, which intervened intermittently there. In the late 1980s, the French, together with some American military assistance to Chad with which the French reluctantly but tacitly acquiesced, decisively helped the Chadians drive Soviet-armed Libyan forces back to the Aozou strip. Since 1988, Chad has remained politically unstable and dependent on the outside world for its economic survival. Serious international conflicts invo...

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