Negue Djogo

In 1984 Djogo broked with the GUNT, unhappy of its internal disputes. He formed in Paris in 1985 the Democratic Front of Chad ("Front Démocratique du Tchad" or FDT), a coalition of groups that opposed both Goukouni and Habré. But Habré was able to win over the party in peace talks held at Libreville in Gabon under the patronage of the President Omar Bongo, which included also Alphonse Kotiga's Codos and Acheick ibn Oumar's CAC-CDR. Djogo signed for his party on December 23 1985. In exchange Djogo became Minister of Justice, but Habré remains in full control with his National Union for Independence and Revolution (UNIR) sole legal party. And even if Djogo insisted in a press conference held on March 4 1986 that the FDT's goal was to restore democratic liberties, he remained unsurprisingly vague.