Chadian rebels announce capture of another town
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Chadian rebels have captured the town of Am Dam, about 600 kilometres east of the capital N'Djamena and deeper into the country than their forces were a day earlier, a rebel spokesman said.
"We took the town in the middle of the day," rebel spokesman Ali Gueddei said.
"The government troops did not offer much resistance."
Am Dam is 110 kilometres down the road from Goz Beida to the north-west, which the rebels briefly occupied on Saturday (local time).
That puts the fighting that much further from Chad's eastern border with Sudan - and that much closer to the capital.
"Our objective is not to take towns but to clear obstacles on the road to N'Djamena," Gueddei said.
He insisted that their force was strong enough to take the capital.
- AFP
