Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué

Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué (May 20, 1939 – May 9, 2011) was a Chadian politician and army officer. Kamougué was a leading figure in the 1975 coup d'état and subsequently held several positions in the Chadian government and legislature. He was Vice-President from 1979 to 1982 and President of the National Assembly of Chad from 1997 to 2002. Kamougué was also President of the Union for Renewal and Democracy (URD) political party, and he was appointed as Minister of National Defense in April 2008.

He was born in Bitam, Gabon, and is a southerner from Logone Oriental in Chad. As a junior officer he was one of the key military leaders (some sources name him as "the" leader) of the coup d'etat which overthrew and killed Chadian President Ngarta Tombalbaye on April 13, 1975. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1975 to 1978 as well as a member of the Higher Military Council (Conseil supérieur militaire, CSM) under Head of State Félix Malloum. Kamougué subsequently became Vice-President in the Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) when Goukouni Oueddei became President on November 10, 1979, remaining in that position until the GUNT was overthrown by supporters of Hissène Habré when they captured N'Djamena on June 7, 1982.

After Habré seized N'Djamena, Kamougué, based in Moundou, continued to control southern Chad at the head of a permanent committee, and he called for a federal solution to the conflict, which was rejected by Habré. On September 4, 1982, a broadcast from N'Djamena announced that rebels within Kamougué's forces had captured his headquarters and that he had fled to Cameroon.

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