Africa's Thirty Years' War: Chad-Libya-The Sudan, 1963-1993

by J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins

Africa's Thirty Years' War began in the early 1960s, when a civil war in Chad pitted the Muslim north and center against the political domination of African Christian politicians from southern Chad. During their insurgency, the Muslim revolutionaries found a safe haven in the Sudan, whose governments provided support hoping to overthrow the Tombalbaye government in Chad. Libya entered the fray in 1969 when Qadaffi claimed the Aozou strip of northern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813335663
• ISBN13: 9780813335667
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"