Armed Forces of the North

This article is about the Chadian rebel army. For other uses, see Army of the North (disambiguation).

Armed Forces of the North
Forces Armées du Nord
Leaders	Hissène Habré
Dates of operation	1976–February 1983
Split from	FROLINAT
Headquarters	Tripoli
Active regions	Chad
Ideology	Chadian nationalism Anti-communism Anti-Gaddafism
Allies	United States France Morocco Sudan Zaire
Opponents	GUNT FROLINAT Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

The Armed Forces of the North (French: Forces Armées du Nord, FAN) was a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War. Composed of FROLINAT units that remained loyal to Hissène Habré following his break from Goukouni Oueddei and the CCFAN in 1976. Consisting at first of only a few hundred Toubou and some Hajerai and Ouaddaïan fighters, FAN began its operations from bases in eastern Chad, where it received help from Sudan. Driven from N'Djamena back to its eastern refuge after the Libyan incursion of 1980, FAN scored a series of victories over Goukouni's Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) forces in 1982, which culminated in the recapture of N'Djamena and Habré's assumption of the presidency. FAN became the core of the new national army, Chadian National Armed Forces (FANT), in February 1983.

Further reading

• Nolutshungu, Sam C. (1996) Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, ISBN 978-0-8139-1628-6, pages 93, 112, 133, 136–137, 160, 167–169, 171, 180, 185–188, and 209.
• Brachet, Julien; Scheele, Judith (2019). The Value of Disorder : Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108428330.

See also

• FROLINAT
• Malloum's Military Government
• Civil war in Chad (1965–1979)