Sudan and Chad Sunday discussed ways to increase joint cooperation to address the security challenges facing the two counties particularly the armed groups in Libya.
Mohamat Idriss Deby Chairman of the Transitional Military Council (CMT) in Chad arrived in Khartoum on a two-day visit. He met with the Head of the Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.
Also, Deby held a closed-door meeting with al-Burhan, followed by another meeting involving the Sudanese defence and interior ministers and the directors of general and military intelligence agencies.
The Chadian delegation included the foreign minister, minister of public security, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, director of the security agency and AbdelKerim Idriss Deby, Deputy Director of the President’s Civil Office.
In a statement released on Sunday evening, the Chadian presidency said that the interim Chadian leader called to deepen the security cooperation based on the signed bilateral and regional agreements.
Deby called for “reciprocal solidarity” between the two countries to face security challenges posed by “the presence in southern Libya of the hordes of mercenaries that might carry out new attacks such as Chad has already experienced,” said the presidency.
The statement further stressed that these mercenaries who are “recruited, trained, supervised, armed and financed by foreign powers (…) must not be allowed to leave Libya because they pose a serious threat to the stability and security of both Chad and Sudan”.
It was purported that the Russian Wanger militia group trained the Chadian rebel groups in Libya who sought to take power in Chad last April.
The Libyan warring parties hired rebel groups from Chad and Sudan to fight along with their forces. The civil war in the northern African country provided them with an opportunity to survive and rebuild their structures.
The Sudanese presidency said al-Burhan recalled the “great joint security operations” and called to develop it.
He further called on extend this cooperation to the economic sector and supporting social coexistence before underscoring that “there are many cooperation agreements between the two countries that must be activated for the benefit of the people.”
When the rebels carried out their attack, Sudan deployed troops on the border areas to prevent them from controlling areas in far eastern Chad near Sudan. The attackers were forced to return to southern Libya.
Musa al-Koni Vice-President of the Libyan Presidential Council visited this week Khartoum and Ndjamena where he agreed with the Sudanese and Chadian leaders to activate a joint security agreement involving Niger.
In his meeting with Hamdok, Deby discussed economic cooperation between the two countries.
Also, the Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Mahdi discussed with her Chadian counterpart bilateral relations and the need to include neighbouring countries in the international meetings to bring stability in Libya.
Source: Sudan Tribune