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1990 Chadian coup d'état
Location Chad AU Africa
Date2–3 December 1990
LocationN'Djamena, Chad
12°8′N 15°3′E / 12.133°N 15.05°E / 12.133; 15.05Coordinates: 12°8′N 15°3′E / 12.133°N 15.05°E / 12.133; 15.05
Result

Coup attempt succeeds.

Belligerents
Flag of Chad Government Flag of Chad MPS rebels
Support:
Flag of Libya (1977-2011) Libya
Flag of Sudan Sudan
Commanders and leaders
Hissène Habré Idriss Déby
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1990 Chadian coup d'état is located in Chad
1990 Chadian coup d'état
Nexus of coup attempt in N'Djamena (marked green), Chad

The 1990 Chadian coup d'état took place on 3 December 1990 when the forces of the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), a Libyan–backed[1] rebel group under the leadership of General Idriss Déby, entered the Chadian capital N'Djamena unopposed. The MPS troops entered Chad from Sudan three weeks earlier.[2]

Previously, on 2 December, pro–Western President Hissène Habré (who ruled the country since 1982) reportedly fled to neighboring Cameroon with his family, Cabinet and top aides as his military, the Chadian National Armed Forces (FANT), collapsed.[3]

Additionally, France, which repeatedly supported the Habré government against local rebellions and Libyan attacks in the 1980s, gave instructions to the 1,300 French troops stationed in Chad not to intervene in what it described as an internal conflict, with French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas saying in an apparent reference to France's traditional deep involvement in Françafrique, its former colonies in Africa:

The times have passed when France would pick governments or would change governments and would maintain others when it so wished.[2]

Dumas said some 300 extra French troops were sent to Chad in recent days only to protect French citizens and maintain order.[2] The French and the MPS troops immediately began disarming civilians and restoring order after rioting and looting swept through N'Djamena after the collapse of the Habré government.[2]

See also[]

  • History of Chad

References[]

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