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Empresas y finanzas

Rebel chief in Chad threatens attack on oil region


    DAKAR (Reuters) - A Chadian rebel leader threatened on Sunday to attack Chad's southern oil-producing Doba region unless France and the United States put pressure on President Idriss Deby to start a dialogue with his foes.

    "We can carry the war to the south ... if the Americans andthe French don't put pressure on Deby to open an all-inclusivedialogue with political and military players," Timane Erdimi,head of the Chadian rebel Rally of Forces for Change (RFC),told Reuters by telephone.

    (Reporting by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by IbonVillelabeitia)