The accord opens the road for the deployment in eastern Chad of an international peace contingent.[55] October 8 - The Chadian government and three exiled opposition parties (Younous Ibedou Awad's Alliance of Resistant Democrats (ADR), Chadian Democratic Rally (RDT) and the Union of the Chadian People for National Reconstruction (UPTRN)) sign in Cotonou in Benin, including an amnesty and the full participation of the opposition to the political life.[56][57] October 10 - An estimated 1,000 former FUC fighters located in Dar Tama, amid voices that they were going to be disarmed, desert the government and move towards the Chadian-Sudanese border.[58] October 12 - United States evangelical missionary Steve Goldbold is kidnapped by MDJT rebels in the Tibesti region.