Provocations and abuses by the new authorities grew so unbearable that at the end of 1966 Kichidemi went in exile with a thousand of followers to the oasis of Kufra, in Libya, after that the President François Tombalbaye had stripped him of his judicial powers and refused to appoint his son Goukouni secretary of the Bardaï tribunal.
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Oueddei Kichidemi was the father of the former Chadian President Goukouni Oueddei and was the tribal leader, or derde, of the Toubou Teda of the Tibesti during the First Chadian Civil War.