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By Phuong Tran
Dakar
15 January 2007


Rebels in Chad say they have seized a second town in the remote northeast as they resume low-intensity hit and run operations against the government. Government officials deny reports that Chadian soldiers have ceded 1 any control to the rebels. Phuong Tran reports from VOA's Central and West Africa Bureau in Dakar.


 






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Rebel spokesman Makaila Nguebla with the Chad rebel group Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) says that fighters have seized a second town in the remote northeast of Chad.


He says that the rebels' military strategy in the northeast is to exploit the remoteness of the region, which does not have many Chadian government forces. By forcing the government to shift its military resources in response to rebel activity, Nguebla says, then the rebels could eventually return to their previous military front in the east of Chad near the towns of Abeche and Biltine.


Regional analyst 2 Adrien Feniou, with the London-based research group Global Insight, says that the UFDD's shift to the northeast is logical.


"The government counteroffensive in the past two months has increased the militarization of the eastern provinces," he said. "Now that the UFDD rebels have been considerably 3 weakened in this counteroffensive, they have chosen to attack where government control is much weaker, and therefore an easier target for rebel activity."


The British-based Royal Institute of International Affairs Africa Programs head, Alex Vines, says the rebels' growing proximity 4 to Libya may have an impact on the two countries' relations.


He said, "I would imagine there will be more frenetic diplomatic activity."


Vines says this region has a troubled history.


"That is interesting if the rebels are positioning themselves in the north in areas that were an area of Libyan-Chadian conflict in the past," he said. "It will certainly enhance suspicion of Libya."


He says at the end of the Cold War, Libya and Chad had a dispute over the northeast, due to possible uranium wealth in that region.


Rebel spokesman, Nguebla, denies the UFDD has any support from Libya.


He says the UFDD is not concerned about Libyan intervention 5 because the terrain 6 in northeastern Chad is what he calls "inhospitable."


On Saturday, the rebels said they had seized the town of Ounianga Kebir, which is located between the Sudanese and Libyan borders. Chadian government officials disputed the rebel statement, saying that the rebels have since retreated to Sudan.


The rebels have pursued a low-intensity war in an effort to topple President Idriss Deby's regime, which the rebels accuse of gross corruption 7 and human-rights abuses.




v.让给,割让,放弃( cede的过去式 )
  • Cuba was ceded by Spain to the US in 1898. 古巴在1898年被西班牙割让给美国。
  • A third of the territory was ceded to France. 领土的三分之一割让给了法国。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
adv.极大地;相当大地;在很大程度上
  • The economic situation has changed considerably.经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
  • The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。
n.接近,邻近
  • Marriages in proximity of blood are forbidden by the law.法律规定禁止近亲结婚。
  • Their house is in close proximity to ours.他们的房子很接近我们的。
n.介入,干涉,干预
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
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ABLV
acute febrile conglobate acne
algorithmic elaboration
alveolodental membranae
analytic center
angle of obliquity of action
anglicizer
anomaly of the ionosphere
anti-resultant
arbitrary polygon
astrometry
auter
ballistic kick
be champagne
belmondoes
biffos
Bohol Str.
boilies
Bolognetta
bus tie-in
charge forward
chicken ranch
closed collateral bundle
closed-circuit oil system
constant dollars
Cutrale
deer-stalkings
defase
dialystele
direct-reading instrument
dracaena reflexa song of jamaica
drying cloth capacity
duplex sheeting
Eth.
excito-anabolic
exhilarative
extra tax on corporate profits
facists
family gomphotheriidaes
farfals
fattening-ups
fibre reserve chamber
fici
fucketty fuck
habitat chamber
hardmeter
have someone's blood on one's hands
high level role expectation
hydrogen carbonate
instant tea
inward indent book
island group
kerekes
kneadingly
Laptop stand
medical steel
melting speed
Mosenthal's test
multiple input terminal equipment
navigation law
nonclipped
normal font
palmar flexion crease
perstipitate
Phalaropidae
pituitary neoplasm
positive hemi-orthodome
post-condition
precise engineering control network
pressure on foundation soil
producing strange but useful animals
pulveral
related department
rhombohedral system
rifle shot
risk culture
rod gland
rokkans
Sacred War
screw tension device
secondary spectrum priority
security for debt
sepulchrum play
side-bar
simulating motor
Skinned Rabbit
slotted-waveguide array
solar energy unit
Spasmedal
standing clouds
substructions
switch - mode power supply
ta ch'i
tapetal cells
tectonic fan-delta complex
the priesthood
tight scratch
true-crimer
undercrests
wave height sensing device
wick feed tray
winch rope