Front for Change and Concord in Chad

Front for Change and Concord in Chad
جبهة التغيير والوفاق في تشاد
LeaderMahamat Mahdi Ali
Foundation2016
Split fromUFDD
CountryChad
MotivesAnti-Chadian government
HeadquartersFezzan
Statusactive
SizeBetween 500 and 1500 combatants (2021)[1][2]
AlliesThird Force (2016–2017)
LNA (2019–2021)
Opponents Chad
LNA (2016–2017, 2021)
ISIL
Battles and warsSecond Libyan Civil War
Insurgency in Northern Chad
Websitefact-tchad.com
Preceded by
UFDD

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.

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  2. ^ "Libya's Foreign Militias". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT) - Chad | Terrorist Groups | TRAC". www.trackingterrorism.org. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  4. ^ El-Gamaty, Guma. "Regional interference is threatening Libya's future as one state". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 31 August 2018.