Sudan looses more dogs of war against Chad

CNN:

The government of Chad issued a communique Thursday that said mercenaries from Sudan had crossed into Chad.

The communique, sent out from the capital N'Djamena, said that Sudan had launched "several heavily armed columns" of "mercenaries"against Chad the day before, The Associated Press reported.

Mercenaries is the term the Chadian government attributes to Chadian rebels backed by the Sudanese government, AP reports.

Chad is still recovering from a failed attempt last month by rebels to overthrow President Idriss Deby's regime.

The fighting forced thousands to flee the capital, most of them going to the Cameroonian city of Kousseri, just across the river from N'Djamena.

President Idiss Deby was in Dakar, Senegal, to sign a peace treaty with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir. But al-Bashir failed to attend their meeting on Wednesday because he reportedly had a headache, news media reported.

The recent tensions between Chad's government and rebels is seen as a proxy war over Darfur.

Sudan's government believes Chad is backing rebels in the volatile Sudanese region of Darfur where more than 200,000 people have died since 2003 and 2.5 million people have been forced into refugee camps.

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Bad faith is a consistent characteristic of the Sudan government. Since the Islamic supremacist took over Sudan the government has drifted from one genocide and war to another. Al Bashir has been the cause of many headaches for over a decade. It will probably take regime change in Khartoum to bring peace to this part of Africa, but no one thinks Sudan would be worth the effort.