Peace is in sight as Chad’s transitional authorities and rebel groups signed a peace agreement in Doha on Monday.
The peace agreement comes days ahead of a broad national reconciliation dialogue to take place later this month.
The negotiation was facilitated by Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani,
The Chadian Transitional Military Council (TMC) Last week published list of participants in the national reconciliation dialogue after it had fixed August 20 as the date for the talks which is set to involve several armed groups in the country.
The interim military government’s foreign minister, Mahamat Zene Cherif, told reporters he believed the agreement would lead to sustainable peace in Chad, adding that 1,500 representatives would attend the national dialogue on August 20.
Cherif said while brushing off concerns that not all groups had signed up to the deal.
“Most of the armed groups signed this agreement and they will take part in the national dialogue. And this national, inclusive dialogue is a forum for all Chadian people,”
Chad is one of the many African countries battling insurgency, the military in most of the countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea rode on the security challenge to take over government but not much appears to have been the result of the interregnums.
Will the peace agreement launch in an era of lasting peace in Chad?