Complex sentence: General Mahamat Nouri (born 1947) is a Chadian insurgent leader who currently commands the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) and has been for a long period first a close associate of Hissène Habré, and after 1990 of President Idriss Déby.
Split into simpler sentences: General Mahamat Nouri (born 1947) is a Chadian insurgent leader who currently commands the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). He has also been for a long time associate of Hissène Habré, and after 1990 of President Idriss Déby.