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While we were busy grumbling over our economic problems, Arab militiamen known as the janjaweed were busy butchering thousands of black African civilians in Darfur, Sudan. They would arrive on horseback killing women and children with kalashnikovs,...
A Chadian court on Friday sentenced a former president and eleven rebels to death for crimes against the state, an official said.
U.S. actress-activist Mia Farrow aired an “alternative” Olympic opening ceremony in a Web cast Friday, showing Darfur refugees in the barren deserts of eastern Chad playing sports on sandy fields.
Chad’s army has killed 161 rebels in a battle in the eastern part of the African country, a military official said Wednesday.Army spokesman Col. Mahamat Hassan Abakar said four soldiers were killed and 52 others were wounded in the fighting Tuesday in...
A Chadian minister on Tuesday accused the Sudanese army of assisting rebels in an attack on an army post in eastern Chad, an allegation Sudan denied and that was bound to complicate already tense relations between the neighbors.Mahamat Hissene, Chad’s...
Rebels trying to topple President Idriss Deby on Saturday attacked a town in eastern Chad where thousands of refugees are taking shelter, officials said.There was heavy fighting for about an hour in Goz-Beida before the gunfire died down, said an aid...
The recent rebel assault near Sudan’s capital was not a permanent setback for Darfur peace talks nor relations between Sudan and neighboring Chad, the head of the African Union said.AU Commission chairman Jean Ping said late Sunday that there was “no...
Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday and put a halt to bilateral trade, a minister said, a day after Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad.Communications Minister Mahamat Hissene said that the Cabinet decided during a meeting chaired by...
Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city.Khartoum was still under curfew and reeling from the...
President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media.The president, wearing his military uniform, appeared on state...
President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media.The president, wearing his military uniform, appeared on state...
The political situation in Chad is another indication of the same old African story of civil wars and regional instability. Chad government forces and rebels, with alleged Sudanese backup, are involved in a fierce battle for the control of the...
The pinnacle of irony, that pierces deep in Africa, never seems to get away from Darfur or Chad either. Yet another black chapter added in the human history. The most condemnable and abhorred act that makes us hang our head in shame for being humans....
Children should be cut, cooked and eaten. That way we solve the food, population and child-trafficking problems at one go. Jonathan Swift, the author of the popular Gulliver’s Travels, had once proposed this easy solution for dealing with all the...
The violent political scenario in the impoverished oil-rich African country of Chad is the result of another, yet common world neglect. Chadians have hardly experienced a period of calm and peace since their independence from the French. According to...
For last many years Darfur has become a symbol of human suffering and civil strife causing exodus of millions of refugees. Perturbed by the reported atrocities by the Khartoum supported Janjaweed militia and pressed by the European public opinion on...
France is to begin humanitarian supplies by air transport between Abeche in eastern Chad and Goz Beida in the southeast of the country. This will help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians with the supply of food and medicine...
Amid the human rights violations and fear of lives, Darfur seems to rejuvenate with the ray of hope that comes from UN and African Union’s peacekeeping plans. The genocide and unprecedented violence in Darfur that proved a scar on humanity due to...
Chad vows to absolve child soldiers who are a part of government army and rebel groups across the conflict-torn central African country.
President Idriss Deby’s government made the commitment in an agreement signed with the United Nations...
As thousands of people are fleeing to Chad from Sudan’s smoldering Darfur region to take refuge from Janjaweed militia, the volatile fire of ethnic cleansing is also moving to Eastern Chad, for hostile Janjaweed militiamen chase and onslaught Sudanese...
Did you hear that China using its influence to stop the crisis in Darfur. China urged Sudan on Monday to accept the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, increasing the pressure on a key economic partner that Beijing has been criticized for...
Albanian elite commando troops wait at Tirana Airport Thursday July 17, 2008, prior to their leaving on a peace-keeping missions in Chad. Albania, which recently got an invitation to join NATO, is deploying 62 troops to serve as part of the 3,700 strong...
