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2018-05-29 Africa North

Khalifa Haftar reaches out to Sudan’s Minni Minawi rebel group to hire more mercenaries

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Posted by Fred 2018-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 The Minni Minawi are Zaghawa, a tough born-to-fight ethnicity located in Darfur and eastern Chad. It is possible that Khalifa Haftar is using them because of their traditional animosity toward the ethnic Tubu whose homeland is the northernmost Chad Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti and who have been making life miserable in southern Libya.

Posted by Clurong Peacock9529 2018-05-29 07:41|| 2018-05-29 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you for knowing that for us, Clurong Peacock9529. One can see why they go straight to strong man rule in that part of the world.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-29 09:50|| 2018-05-29 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The Libyan Army also has an institutional memory involving those people. During the Toyota War Phase of the Chad Civil War the Libyans depended on the northern tribes to provide infantry -- tough, tough fighters. When the Libyans lost the support of those tribes they had to negotiate a truce and leave.

Posted by magpie 2018-05-29 20:45|| 2018-05-29 20:45|| Front Page Top

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