Chad (1983: Doomsday)

Before Doomsday
After World War II, France granted Chad the status of overseas territory and its inhabitants the right to elect representatives to the French National Assembly and a Chadian assembly. The largest political party was the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT), based in the southern half of the colony. Chad was granted independence from France on August 11, 1960 with the PPT's leader, François Tombalbaye, as its first president. In 1965 Muslims began a civil war. Tombalbaye was overthrown and killed in 1975, but the insurgency continued. In 1979 the rebel factions conquered the capital, and all central authority in the country collapsed. Armed factions, many from the north's rebellion, contended for power.

The Transitional Government of National Unity (Gouvernement d'Union Nationale de Transition or GUNT) was the coalition government of armed groups that nominally ruled Chad from 1979 to 1982, during the most chaotic phase of the long-running civil war that began in 1965.

The GUNT replaced the fragile alliance led by Félix Malloum and Hissène Habré, which collapsed in February 1979. GUNT was characterized by intense rivalries that led to armed confrontations and the Libyan intervention in 1980. Libya intervened in support of the GUNT's President Goukouni Oueddei against the former GUNT Defence Minister Hissène Habré. Because of international pressures and uneasy relations between Goukouni and Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, Goukouni asked the Libyans to leave Chad in November 1981; they were replaced by an Inter-African Force (IAF). The IAF showed itself unwilling to confront Habré's militia, and on June 7, 1982, the GUNT was ousted by Habré; Goukouni fled into exile.

The disintegration of Chad caused the collapse of France's position in the country. Libya moved to fill the power vacuum and became involved in Chad's civil war.

Chad-Libya War
On September 1, 1969 a coup d'etat in Libya brought Muammar al-Gaddafi to power in Libya to the north of Chad. Three years later in 1972, Libyan forces moved into the Aouzou Strip, a strip of land in northern Chad. Libya then used the strip as a base for deeper involvement in Chad.

Fighting against the Libyans were Armed Forces of the North (FAN), led by the anti-Libyan Hissène Habré, while the majority, willing to accept an alliance with Gaddafi, was commanded by Goukouni Oueddei. The latter group was to shortly after rename itself People's Armed Forces (FAP) it formed the largest component of the Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) coalition army.

In June 1983, France launched Operation Manta, where 2,700 soldiers where sent as an intervention into the country. France's government then established the Red Line at the 15th Parallel, which would be the limit for how far Libyan forces could go before major attack.

The line however was never reached as global events took over the world.

In September 1983, Doomsday occurred. Several attacks occured in France. Sensing no place to go the French soldiers stayed at the the 15th Parallel. In October of that same year, Colonel Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, ordered his soldiers to retreat to Libya until further notice. Gaddafi was assassinated in January of 1984, and Libya decended into civil war, so the soldiers never returned to the war.

Current Situation
The current situation in Chad is that the country has been split by the 15th Parallel into the northern Transitional Chad, and Southern Chad or simply Chad.

The border between the countries is the 15th Parallel, where small skirmishes still exist between the two nations.



Transitional Chad
Hissène Habré ruled Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990 by General Idriss Déby the commander-in-chief of the army of Transitional Chad and assassinated as he attempted to flee across the border into the former nation of Niger.

Idriss Déby himself was assassinated in 1994.

Between 1994 and 2004 the area of Transitional Chad was in a state of civil war.

In 2002 General Adoum Younousmi rose to power in his home town of Fada, from there he quickly built his resources and began taking nearby town quickly, by 2003 he controlled the majority of the East of Transitional Chad. On the 23rd November 2004 the last city in Transtional Chad, Faya-Largeau, in central Transtitional Chad fell to Younousmi's army unifying it for the first time since 1994.

In 2006 General Adoum Younousmi declared himself President, he dropped his military title, and began to form a government.

Its offical capital is Faya-Largeau.

Southern Chad
Southern Chad was civil war since the division of the nation in 1983, mainly due to the after effects of Doomsday until 2009. In early 2009 a charismatic former Doctor, Fidèle Abdelkérim Moungar began to gather followers due to his speaches against fighting and for the rebuilding of Southern Chad.

Based in home town of Doba his followers began spreading his words across Southern Chad.