The Joint Sudanese-Chadian Forces - a model to be followed
27 March, 2011
Khartoum, March 2011 (Sudanow)—The joint Sudanese-Chadian Forces have achieved a remarkable success in keeping security and stability along the 1,350-kilometer borderline between the two countries, prompting the Sudanese, Chadian leaderships to renew the mandate of those forces for another year so as to carry on with their efforts for maintenance of a lasting peace on the borders.
This successful experience made the concerned parties ponder the extension of the duties of the joint forces to cover the common borders with Central African Republic (CAR). Chadian Foreign Minister General Bushara Eisa Jadalla said, as a result of the success of the experience, it was suggested that a tripartite summit meeting of presidents Omar al-Beshir, Idrisse Deby and Philip Bouzeze be held in the coming days to discuss the common border security issue.
The idea behind the formation of the joint forces was to curb activities of the Darfur rebel movements which sought strategic positions from which they could launch their military operations, and, being denied this goal, they would have to drop the military option and sit down for peaceful negotiations.
The National Defense Minister believes that the crisis in Libya has added a new challenge to the joint forces, pointing out that the likely smuggling of weapons from the warehouses of the Libyan would pose a security threat that requires certain arrangement to cope with.
Colonel Fathal Rahman Abdalla Suleiman, the commander of the joint forces said the Sudanese and Chadian armies have managed to surmount all conspiracies and challenges posed by the enemies of the two countries aimed at disturbing the stability in the region.
The meetings held by President Idrisse Deby, his Defense Minister and the Commander-in-Chief of the Chadian armed forces with the Sudanese Defense Minister demonstrated the concern and intent by the Chadian leadership for continuity of the experience of the joint forces in which the Sudanese and Chadian officers, having been graduated in one batch at the Sudanese military college, exchanged amicable gestures.
Another mainstay of the social peace between the two countries was the native administration with the existence of 18 common tribes on both sides of the borderline. This was behind the convening of a number of conferences of the common tribal administration leaders who called for maintenance of peace and stability and for reopening the Chadian consulate in Geneina and for establishing airlines between Khartoum-N'djamena and Geneina-Abeche, and for facilitation of the trade exchange and for encouragement of exchanged visits between the governors of the Border States.
The two sides agreed on establishing four new observation posts on the Sudanese side and two similar posts of the Chadian side of the common borderline and instructing the security authorities of the two countries to monitor and prevent the rebel and opposition elements from reassembling and re-emergence in the border areas.
The native administration conferences also recommended the clearing of the rebel pockets which might still be holed up on the Sudanese and Chadian territories
The joint forces have been formed under a protocol that was signed in N'djamena on 15 January 2010 on instructions by the presidents of the two countries after they have agreed to put an end to the discord between their countries.
The two sides agreed that the strength of the joint forces be raised to 2,000 with each of them contributing 500 additional individuals.
These forcers have so far managed to carry out 39 operational missions, 486 missions of chasing outlaws, three missions of freeing a Swiss, a Chinese and a French hostages, 302 administrative missions and 13 missions of investigations and fact-finding.
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