Without Vordarian to hold it together, his rebel coalition shattered rapidly into disparate factions.

That victory has proved elusive and tensions within the rebel coalition make it ever less likely.

The Déby clansmen have a loose alliance with the rebel coalition that orchestrated the latest incursion.

The rebel coalition confirmed it will demand the immediate departure of president Bozize, who has pledged to see out his term until its end in 2016.

It was in the transition from a rebel coalition to a political party that the former guerrillas seem to have foundered.

One hundred yards down the road, fighters from a northern rebel coalition stopped cars, occassionally peering into their trunks for weapons.

The two other factions are in a loosely aligned rebel coalition dominated by the Khmer Rouge.

The council also would fill Cambodia's seat in the United Nations, currently controlled by the rebel coalition.

The rebel coalition , has boycotted the last five elections as fraudulent.

The plan implicitly drops previous demands for the formation of a government of national unity that would include the rebel coalition.