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Former Chadian President Goukouni Oueddei has been expelled from an overseas-based opposition coalition, leaving its ranks divided, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported.
Antoine Bangui, chairman of the Coordination of Opposition Armed Movements and Political Parties, blamed Goukouni Oueddei for going it alone, RFI reported the group as saying in a communique. Bangui said the ex-president had made contact with other Chadian politicians without informing him and was playing into the government's hands. There was no immediate reaction from Goukouni.
Goukouni, a former leader of the rebel Forces armees populaires (FAP), became president in 1979 at the head of a provisional government made up of a coalition of factions. Internal conflict and divisions plagued the government and Goukouni fled Chad in 1982 after Hissene Habre's Forces armees du nord - for a time part of the coalition - captured the capital, N'Djamena, and Habre declared himself head of state.
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