Front for Change and Concord in Chad | |
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جبهة التغيير والوفاق في تشاد | |
Leader | Mahamat Mahdi Ali |
Foundation | 2016 |
Split from | UFDD |
Country | Chad |
Motives | Anti-Chadian government |
Headquarters | Fezzan |
Status | active |
Size | Between 500 and 1500 combatants (2021)[1][2] |
Allies | Third Force (2016–2017) LNA (2019–2021) |
Opponents | Chad LNA (2016–2017, 2021) ISIL |
Battles and wars | Second Libyan Civil War Insurgency in Northern Chad |
Website | fact-tchad.com |
The Front for Change and Concord in Chad (Arabic: جبهة التغيير والوفاق في تشاد, French: Front pour l’alternance et la concorde au Tchad), or FACT, is a political and military organisation created by SG Mahamat Mahdi Ali in March 2016 in Tanua, in the north of Chad, with the goal of overthrowing the government of Chad.[3][4] It is a splinter group of the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD).[3] Ali declared his preparation for military operations against President Idriss Déby. The group was responsible for the death of Déby in April 2021, when he was killed while commanding troops on the frontline fighting the militants.