\n Chad has sent men and material to reinforce the border with the Central African Republic despite agreeing to jointly investigate a CAR attack that left six Chadian soldiers dead, a provincial governor said Thursday.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"I've come from the area and we have reinforced our positions with men and material,\" army general Moussa Haroun Tirgo, governor of southern Chad's Eastern Logone province,told AFP.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Nothing will be like before,\" he vowed, noting five of the six dead had been \"kidnapped and executed\".\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The military have strengthened the security arrangements on the border,\" confirmed Julien Tawonya, mayor of Bitoye town where the attack occurred.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The bodies of the executed soldiers have not been moved,\" and are still in CAR, he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Chad has blamed the CAR army for Sunday's attack, which it labelled a \"war crime\" that would \"not go unpunished\".\n<\/p>\n
\n CAR has put the blame on rebels it said its forces had been pursuing.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tensions appeared to have eased after the two countries' foreign ministers met Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n
\n The two parties \"underlined the urgency of clarifying the circumstances in which this attack took place\" and agreed to set up an independent international commission of inquiry.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n They also agreed to work together to strengthen security along the border.\n<\/p>\n
\n The inquiry was to involve the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC).\n<\/p>\n
\n The CEEAC holds a summit in Brazzaville on Friday focusing on Chad where Mahamat Idriss Deby has taken over from his president father who died fighting rebels after 30 years in power.\n<\/p>\n
\n The border incident has placed the spotlight on the occasionally fraught relations between Chad -- ruled by a junta that took power just weeks ago -- and the CAR, an unstable country battling powerful armed groups.\n<\/p>\n
\n CAR regularly accuses its northern neighbour of supporting armed rebel groups from inside Chad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chad has sent men and material to reinforce the border with the Central African Republic despite agreeing to jointly investigate a CAR attack that left six Chadian soldiers dead, a provincial governor said Thursday. \"I've come from the area and we have reinforced our positions with men and material,\" army general Moussa Haroun Tirgo, governor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-78124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n