The leader of the Chadian rebels who have been leading an offensive against the regime for two weeks and are accused by the army of having killed the head of state Idriss Déby Itno during the fighting, assured AFP on Saturday that they were “
available to observe a ceasefire
”.
Read also: Chad in the face of post-Déby anguish
"
We have affirmed our availability to observe a truce, a cease-fire (...) but this morning we were again bombed
", declared Mahamat Mahadi Ali, head of the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad. (FACT) reached by phone from Libreville. The Chadian army assured earlier this week that it had "
destroyed
" the rebel column and killed 300 combatants.