Chad: European Force Sticks to Mandate Under Early Pressure

N'djamena — The European Union's first major overseas military deployment - to the impoverished central African nation of Chad - is caught in a war of words between the country's president and tenacious rebel groups operating on Chad's arid border with Sudan.

On Monday, Chadian President Idriss Deby accused the peacekeepers of effectively aiding rebel groups, sparking a diplomatic row. The peacekeepers' poorly-understood mandate lies at the heart of the dispute.

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