caa a22 4500 386371083 CHVBK 20180307111958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300007993 doi S0021855300007993 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300007993 Naldi Gino J. The Aouzou Strip Dispute—A Legal Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Gino J. Naldi] The outbreak of further hostilities between Chad and Libya in August 1987 was occasioned by a dispute concerning sovereignty over the so-called Aouzou Strip in northern Chad. The extent of Libyan involvement in Chad is motivated to a large degree by this territorial claim. This dispute must be distinguished from Libya's wider ambitions for Arab unity or its involvement in Chad's civil war, although it would appear true to say that Libya was thereby seeking to consolidate its hold on the Aouzou Strip. Documentary evidence exists to support the contention that a genuine territorial claim exists. In addition, it is interesting to note that, while Libya appeared to have resigned itself to the victory of President Habre's forces in the civil war and the defeat and expulsion of its forces from the rest of Chad in the early part of 1987, the capture of Aouzou by Habre's forces in August 1987 resulted in an ongoing military response brought to a tentative conclusion in September 1987 by the OAU. Colonel Gadafi has been reported as saying that, if Chad ceded the Aouzou Strip, he would regard the war as over and would never again interfere in Chad's internal affairs. Moreover, Colonel Gadafi's support for the rival factions in Chad has wavered according to their position on the question of the Aouzou Strip. The purpose of this short article is to analyse Libya's territorial claim to the disputed territory. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 72-77 0021-8553 33:1<72 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300007993 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300007993 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Naldi Gino J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 72-77 0021-8553 33:1<72 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge