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Chad crisis 'failure for Africa'
04/02/2008 07:21 - (SA)
Dakar - The situation in Chad, where rebels have launched an offensive to seize control of the capital N'Djamena represents a "failure for Africa," Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade says.
"Africans now have a guilty conscience because of what has happened in Chad, no one can say 'that surprises us'," Wade's statement broadcast on Sunday by RTS public television said.
"No one is surprised because there were several attempts (by rebels) already which failed," Wade said in comments made upon his return late on Saturday from the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.
The Senegalese leader said African leaders knew that another rebel offensive in Chad was possible, and now it had happened.
Wade said: "I find that sad, it is a failure for Africa."
African Union leaders meeting in Addis Ababa said the body "strongly condemns" the rebel attacks and "demands that an immediate end be put to these attacks and resulting bloodshed."
The pan African body also said it would not recognise any regime that ousted Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno by force.
- AFP
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