Satellite imagery of Ndjamena reveals the heightened state of alert in the Chadian capital after President Idriss Deby was killed whe commanding troops at the front on April 20. 🛰️📸: @Maxar (google.com/maps/@12.11039…) 
The death of Déby, who ruled the country with an iron fist for three decades, comes barely a week after FACT rebels crossed from Libya into Chad. One of their shells apparently exploded near Déby's vehicle. More by @declanwalsh/@AdamouNdjam/@ElianPeltier: nytimes.com/2021/04/22/wor…
The FACT (Front for Change and Concord) rebels threatened to march on Ndjamena this weekend. Whether they can deliver on that threat is unclear: Chadian Army claim heavy rebel losses and foreign officials are unsure how far they are from the capital.
https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1385344155992330249
As fighting in Libya ended, Chadian fighters returned home for the uprising they launched against Déby on April 11. Small but interesting detail: one of Toyota's seen in footage published yesterday, apparently from around Miski, indeed shows a Libyan license plate.
The FACT rebels appeared to be traveling in the same kind of armored vehicles that the United Arab Emirates had donated to Haftar's Libyan National Army, @_hudsonc told @nytimes. They may have brought advanced weaponry from Libya to Chad too. nytimes.com/2021/04/22/wor…
It's worth pointing out that some of the footage of the FACT fighters is archival, not recent — e.g. this footage
https://twitter.com/MediaToubou/status/1383477178063413251(left image, which includes an Emirate-made Panthera T6) which was already published back in July 2020 (right image) viva.co.id/militer/milite…
Another example: a video of heavy exchange of fire allegedly shows “a big war going on in Chad.” Piga Firimbi's @truthjabali took a closer look and found that the video is actually from Iraq. pigafirimbi.africauncensored.online/chad-video-che…
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