Adré (

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: أدري) is the main town of the

Assoungha Assoungha is one of three departments in Ouaddaï, a region of Chad. Its capital is Adré. Sub-prefectures Assoungha is divided into four sub-prefectures: * Adré * Hadjer Hadid * Mabrone * Borota * Molou * Tourane See also * Regions of ...

department in the

Ouaddaï Region Ouaddaï ( ar, وداي) is a region of Chad, located in the south-east of the country, with its capital at Abéché. Prior to 2002 it was known as Ouaddaï Prefecture; in 2008 the southern portions of Ouaddaï (the Sila Department and Djour ...

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...

. It is located very close to Chad's eastern border with Sudan, 400m away.BBC NEWS , Africa , Rebels 'seize Chad border town'
/ref> The town is served by

Adré Airport Adré Airport is a public use airport located near Adré, Ouaddaï, Chad. See also *List of airports in Chad This is a list of airports in Chad, grouped by type and sorted by location. Chad, officially known as the Republic of Chad (french: ...

History

The Chadian-Sudanese conflict began on December 23, 2005, when the

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declared a

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with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the "common enemy"

which the Chadian government sees as the

Rally for Democracy and Liberty The Rally for Democracy and Liberty, abbreviated as R.D.L. (Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et la Liberté in French) is a Chadian rebel group that was formed in August 2005 by former members of the Military of Chad who deserted and united under ...

(RDL) militants, Chadian rebels backed by the

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government, and Sudanese militiamen. Militants have attacked villages and towns in eastern Chad, stealing cattle, murdering citizens, and burning houses. Over 200,000 refugees from the Darfur region of northwestern Sudan currently claim asylum in eastern Chad. Chadian president

Idriss Déby Idriss Déby Itno ' (18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021. Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ra ...

accused Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to "destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad." An attack on Adré led to the deaths of either one hundred rebels or three hundred rebels as CNN has reported. The Sudanese government was blamed for the attack, which was th
second in the region in three days
but Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman

Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim (Arabic: جمال محمد إبراهيم; born 7 April 1949) is a Sudanese poet, novelist and former diplomat. He received his B.A. degree with honors in sociology in 1973 from the University of Khartoum. After two years ...

denies any Sudanese involvement, "We are not for any escalation with Chad. We technically deny involvement in Chadian internal affairs." This attack was the final straw that led to the declaration of belligerence by Chad and the alleged deployment of the Chadian airforce into Sudanese airspace, which the Chadian government denies. Adré was attacked on February 3, 2007. Fighting raged for hours between government troops and a coalition of four rebel groups including the

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. The government claimed that Sudan was responsible for the attack.

Demographics

References

External links

Maplandia (Google Maps) map
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adre Populated places in Chad Chad–Sudan border crossings Ouaddaï Region