The World - News from May 26, 1988

Moammar Kadafi announced Libyan recognition of Chad and offered aid to reconstruct towns bombed by his air force, the Libyan news agency JANA said. “As a gift to Africa from the great revolutionary leader, Libya announces its recognition of Chad,” the report, monitored in Beirut, said. The leader declared all “pending problems” between Libya and Chad over. Kadafi’s statement, in speech to African ambassadors, came as an Organization of African Unity attempt to mediate in an ongoing Chad-Libyan border dispute appeared close to collapse. The Chadian government, troubled by civil war for almost two decades, also has faced opposition from Libya and Libyan-backed rebels in the north.