Top Secret: Cold Warriors

The Forces Armées du Nord (Armed Forces of the North) is the Chadian rebel army led y Hissène Habré; it is composed of FROLINAT units that remained loyal to 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. FAN was driven from N’Djamena back to its eastern refuge after the Libyan incursion of 1980.